Bug 844994 - Unable to accept meeting request
Summary: Unable to accept meeting request
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution-ews
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-01 12:31 UTC by Louis van Dyk
Modified: 2013-08-01 03:45 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 03:45:32 UTC
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Description Louis van Dyk 2012-08-01 12:31:23 UTC
Description of problem:
I have an IMAP+ account to a Linux box in the "cloud" (set as default) and use EWS to communicate to the Corporate Exchange server.  

Accepting Meeting requests on the Exchange Calendar just don't work for me!


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-mapi-3.4.3-5.fc17.x86_64
evolution-ews-3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64
evolution-data-server-3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64
evolution-3.4.3-2.fc17.x86_64
evolution-NetworkManager-3.4.3-2.fc17.x86_64
evolution-help-3.4.3-2.fc17.noarch


How reproducible:
It has never worked on Fedora 17.  (But on previous Fedora's the Calendar entries didn't sync nor could I update them - so this is already way better!)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  My passwords are stored.
2.  I close evolution and ensure that no processes are running.
3.  I open evolution, which starts in the IMAP+ Folder.
4.  I open the Exchange tree, and open a message to make sure it has connected to Exchange.
5.  I open the Exchange Calendar, and see the items update.  Tasks also refresh.  I add an appointment for myself to verify I can write to the Calendar.
6.  I go back to the IMAP+ Folder and open a meeting request.
7.  In this case I get:
Failed to load the calendar 'Calendar' (Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))
MOST other times it gets stuck on: Searching for an existing version of this appointment.  There is nothing I can do then but close it all - sometimes I have to kill it.  
  

Actual results:
Mostly it sticks on Searching for an existing version of this appointment.

Otherwise:
Failed to load the calendar 'Calendar' (Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))


Expected results:
I should be able to accept a meeting request, and have it added to the Calendar.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2012-08-02 06:30:01 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. It can mean that evolution-calendar-factory is stuck with some task and cannot respond (at least the timeout error suggests that). Could you install debuginfo packages for evolution-data-server, evolution and evolution-ews, of the same version as your binary packages are (rpm -qa | grep evolution | sort) and then get a backtrace of running calendar factory when you have this stuck state, please? You can get the backtrace with command like this:
   $ gdb --batch --ex "t a a bt" -pid=PID &>bt.txt
where PID is a process ID of running evolution-calendar-factory (ps ax | grep evolution). Before attaching it here, please make sure it'll not expose any private information, like passwords (I always search for "pass" (quotes for clarity only) in the bt.txt file).

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