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Old 08-17-2008, 07:06 PM   #1
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Linux version of Calibre, problems with Meta Data

Hey, I used the windows version of Calibre and it worked absolutely flawlessly in every respect. Boy was I impressed, so I'd like to shout out a thanks to the developer of calibre, Kovid Goyal. Fantastic work. I'm now using the Linux version, and it still works well with just one hiccup. The metadata and cover image retrieval features don't work well (even though I'm signed up at the websites and all that). Here are the error messages I get in both cases:

Could not fetch ISBNDB metadata. Error: [Errno socket error] (-2, 'Name or service not known')

and

Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "library.pyz/calibre.gui2.dialogs.metadata_single", line 260, in fetch_cover
File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.metadata.library_thing", line 41, in cover_from_isbn
File "library.pyz/mechanize._mechanize", line 203, in open
File "library.pyz/mechanize._mechanize", line 229, in _mech_open
File "library.pyz/mechanize._opener", line 181, in open
File "library.pyz/urllib2", line 399, in _open
File "library.pyz/urllib2", line 360, in _call_chain
File "library.pyz/mechanize._http", line 700, in http_open
File "library.pyz/mechanize._http", line 677, in do_open
URLError:

for the cover image. Help, suggestions? thanks in advance.
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Old 08-25-2008, 09:04 PM   #2
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Old 08-25-2008, 09:53 PM   #3
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Old 04-23-2009, 12:24 AM   #4
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I am having the same problem as the original poster. I have recently built a new PC and put a fresh Linux install on it. Calibre on my old PC worked fine on 64bit Linux. Now it works ok, but it gets the:
Could not fetch ISBNDB metadata. Error: [Errno socket error] (-2, 'Name or service not known')
error when I try to grab metadata.

I took a look at the ticket for it. I am not using a proxy. Here is the output of calibre-debug -c "from calibre import browser; print browser.open('http://google.com').read()"

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 45, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/debug.py", line 150, in main
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'open'
Segmentation fault

Is there anything I can do to get the metadata downloading working? Either way, thanks a lot for Calibre. I'm a happy user.
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Old 04-23-2009, 12:43 AM   #5
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it should be

Code:
calibre-debug -c "from calibre import browser; print browser().open('http://google.com').read()"
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Here is the output:

$ calibre-debug -c "from calibre import browser; print browser().open('http://google.com').read()"

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 45, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/debug.py", line 150, in main
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 209, inopen
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 236, in_mech_open
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 191, in open
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 401, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 361, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mechanize/_http.py", line 729, in http_open
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mechanize/_http.py", line 706, in do_open
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
Segmentation fault
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Old 04-24-2009, 10:59 AM   #7
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that error indicates name resolution is not working on your machine
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