I too have this issue (WP 4.3, EM 5.6). Currently my work around is to update the event_status field in the wp_em_events table from NULL to 1. Any other advice on how to solve this would be great
I also noticed that the default value for ‘spaces’ changed from 99 to 10. I can’t seem to find where that is defined.
And while I’m asking: a setting to define a default start time would be nice too ??