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phisalis · 08-23-2011, 12:36 PM

Thanks for your help guys. And my apologies for the bad attitude. It's boorish to complain about work people do for free.

It does seem to be an .ICEauthority issue but not a permissions issue with the file itself. In fact, although I've tried a few of the terminal sudo starts of various programs nothing seems to reset the permissions, owner or group of this file. It's mere presence is enough to break Calibre.

Anyway, I've just written a Bash script to call the calibre start script, but first it deletes the .ICEauthority file. Now Calibre works as it should and nothing else appears to be broken (so far).

I realise that this is a really dirty solution. I'd much rather Calibre played nice. And I still can't find an explanation for the file. What is it for if it's absence doesn't matter? If the various problems in the forums are representative then this file is there just to break things. Kill it with fire.

08-23-2011, 12:36 PM	#10
phisalis Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: kindle3	Thanks for your help guys. And my apologies for the bad attitude. It's boorish to complain about work people do for free. It does seem to be an .ICEauthority issue but not a permissions issue with the file itself. In fact, although I've tried a few of the terminal sudo starts of various programs nothing seems to reset the permissions, owner or group of this file. It's mere presence is enough to break Calibre. Anyway, I've just written a Bash script to call the calibre start script, but first it deletes the .ICEauthority file. Now Calibre works as it should and nothing else appears to be broken (so far). I realise that this is a really dirty solution. I'd much rather Calibre played nice. And I still can't find an explanation for the file. What is it for if it's absence doesn't matter? If the various problems in the forums are representative then this file is there just to break things. Kill it with fire.