Re: [Evolution] Calendar-EWS generates zombies [evolution] <defunct>

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> When I switch to the Calendar for the first time, I get two zombies
> [evolution] <defunct>
> The my calendar shows on the left but the main window does not show any
> entries.

I'm using 3.10.3 on Fedora 20 and don't have any problems with EWS
dropping zombies.  I don't use Exchange extensively, but I mainly use it
for shared calendars.

> I have been looking through the archive, but I could not find any posts
> for 3.10.3 generating [evolution] <defunct>.
> I looked into the documentation to activate debugging, but I am not sure
> which option (and how) to activate.

> From a terminal do

  EWS_DEBUG=2 evolution

I don't know why the EWS debugging things were omitted from

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Debugging

> Anybody with similar problems or ideas how to solve this? I would really
> appreciate this, as Evolution seems to be the only way to use Exchange
> functionalities on Ubuntu (13.10).

EWS does work on Evo 3.10.3, it may be that there is something odd with
the specific configuration you are using (either at your end or the
Exchange end).  It may just be that you need to clean the cache/index
files - but I don't know enough about EWS and calendars to know if that
could be an issue.

If all else fails, then have a look at Davmail - it's a separate program
that runs on your own machine that provides standard port interfaces to
an Exchange server - i.e. you will see a CalDAV port locally that
connects to the Exchange calendar.  It's not perfect, but it works.

   http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

But it would be far better to work out why Evolution isn't doing the
correct thing.

P.