Communicaton Error again

[didiyy]

Hi, I'm having the same problem again of transferring books from my library to my Sony ereader. The error is:

(22, 'Invalid argument')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 67, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 308, in _sync_booklists
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\prs505\driver.py", line 154, in sync_booklists
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\prs505\sony_cache.py", line 591, in write
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

When I run the debug this is the result:

Version: 0.7.20
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid3b34&rev0006',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid3b3c&rev0006',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c521&rev_5701',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c521&rev_5701&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c521&rev_5701&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_054c&pid_031e&rev_031:',
u'usb\\vid_0a12&pid_0001&rev_3164',
u'usb\\vid_18e3&pid_9102&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_8087&pid_0020&rev_0000',
u'usb\\vid_8087&pid_0020&rev_0000']
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : P C I I D E \ I D E C H A N N E L \ 4 & 2 D 5 1 D B 1 9 &
0 & 1
d e v i c e i d : P C I \ V E N _ 8 0 8 6 & D E V _ 3 B 2 0 & S U B S Y S _
7 6 3 6 1 4 6 2 & R E V _ 0 6 \ 3 & 1 1 5 8 3 6 5 9 & 0 & F A
d e v i c e i d : A C P I \ P N P 0 A 0 8 \ 0
d e v i c e i d : A C P I _ H A L \ P N P 0 C 0 8 \ 0
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ A C P I _ H A L \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ i d e # c d r o m h l - d t - s t _ d v d r a
m _ g h 2 2 n s 5 0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ t n 0 2 _ _ _ _ # 5 & 2 4 0
a 2 1 1 9 & 0 & 1 . 0 . 0 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0
0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { e 9 f c f 1 0 6 - 6 3 1 4 - 1 1 d f - b 2
a b - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } \
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ g e n e r i c & p r o d _ u s b _ c f _ r e a d e r &
r e v _ 1 . 0 1 # 1 8 e 3 3 1 2 d 8 1 b & 1 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f - 1 1
d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d
0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { e 9 f c f 1 0 f - 6 3 1 4 - 1 1 d f - b 2
a b - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } \
Found drive: F
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ g e n e r i c & p r o d _ u s b _ m s _ r e a d e r &
r e v _ 1 . 0 3 # 1 8 e 3 3 1 2 d 8 1 b & 3 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f - 1 1
d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d
0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { e 9 f c f 1 1 1 - 6 3 1 4 - 1 1 d f - b 2
a b - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } \
Found drive: H
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ g e n e r i c & p r o d _ u s b _ s d _ r e a d e r &
r e v _ 1 . 0 0 # 1 8 e 3 3 1 2 d 8 1 b & 0 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f - 1 1
d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d
0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { e 9 f c f 1 0 e - 6 3 1 4 - 1 1 d f - b 2
a b - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } \
Found drive: E
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ g e n e r i c & p r o d _ u s b _ x d # s m _ r e a d
e r & r e v _ 1 . 0 2 # 1 8 e 3 3 1 2 d 8 1 b & 2 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f
- 1 1 d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f -
1 1 d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { e 9 f c f 1 1 0 - 6 3 1 4 - 1 1 d f - b 2
a b - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } \
Found drive: G
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ s o n y & p r o d _ p r s - 6 0 0 & r e v _ 1 . 0 0 #
0 8 0 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 d 4 9 a a b & 0 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f - 1 1 d 0 - 9
4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d 0 - 9 4
f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { b 1 7 2 f 9 8 b - a 5 8 a - 1 1 d f - b b
f d - 0 0 1 0 6 0 e 6 a 7 b b } \
Found drive: I
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ s o n y & p r o d _ p r s - 6 0 0 _ l a u n c h e r &
r e v _ 1 . 0 0 # 0 8 0 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 d 4 9 a a b & 3 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6
b f - 1 1 d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b
f - 1 1 d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { b 1 7 2 f 9 7 b - a 5 8 a - 1 1 d f - b b
f d - 0 0 1 0 6 0 e 6 a 7 b b } \
Found drive: L
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ s o n y & p r o d _ p r s - 6 0 0 _ m s & r e v _ 1 .
0 0 # 0 8 0 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 d 4 9 a a b & 1 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f - 1 1 d
0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d 0
- 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { b 1 7 2 f 9 8 7 - a 5 8 a - 1 1 d f - b b
f d - 0 0 1 0 6 0 e 6 a 7 b b } \
Found drive: J
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # _ ? ? _ u s b s
t o r # d i s k & v e n _ s o n y & p r o d _ p r s - 6 0 0 _ s d & r e v _ 1 .
0 0 # 0 8 0 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 d 4 9 a a b & 2 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 7 - b 6 b f - 1 1 d
0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d 0
- 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1 e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { b 1 7 2 f 9 8 1 - a 5 8 a - 1 1 d f - b b
f d - 0 0 1 0 6 0 e 6 a 7 b b } \
Found drive: K
Getting ancestors
d e v i c e i d : R O O T \ V O L M G R \ 0 0 0 0
d e v i c e i d : H T R E E \ R O O T \ 0
D e v i c e p a t h : \ \ ? \ s t o r a g e # v o l u m e # { b b d 7 f 0 9
d - 5 3 3 4 - 1 1 d f - 8 c d 0 - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } # 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 # { 5 3 f 5 6 3 0 d - b 6 b f - 1 1 d 0 - 9 4 f 2 - 0 0 a 0 c 9 1
e f b 8 b } \
V o l u m e : \ \ ? \ V o l u m e { e 9 f c f 1 0 1 - 6 3 1 4 - 1 1 d f - b 2
a b - 8 0 6 e 6 f 6 e 6 9 6 3 } \
Drives detected:
(0) I:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_ PRS-600&REV_
1.00#0800461000D49AAB&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11
D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
(3) L:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_ PRS-600_LAUN
CHER&REV_1.00#0800461000D49AAB&3#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630
D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
Looking for ALEX
Looking for ANDROID
Looking for AVANT
Looking for AZBOOKA
Looking for BLACKBERRY
Looking for BOOQ
Looking for BOOX
Looking for COOL_ER
Looking for CYBOOK
Looking for DBOOK
Looking for E52
Looking for E71X
Looking for EB511
Looking for EB600
Looking for EBK52
Looking for ECLICTO
Looking for EDGE
Looking for ELONEX
Looking for ESLICK
Looking for FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG
Looking for GEMEI
Looking for GER2
Looking for HANLINV3
Looking for HANLINV5
Looking for ILIAD
Looking for INVESBOOK
Looking for IPAPYRUS
Looking for IREXDR1000
Looking for IREXDR800
Looking for IRIVER_STORY
Looking for ITALICA
Looking for ITUNES
Looking for JETBOOK
Looking for KINDLE
Looking for KINDLE2
Looking for KINDLE_DX
Looking for KOBO
Looking for KOGAN
Looking for MENTOR
Looking for MIBUK
Looking for N516
Looking for N770
Looking for N810
Looking for NEWSMY
Looking for NOOK
Looking for NUUT2
Looking for PALMPRE
Looking for PDNOVEL
Looking for POCKETBOOK301
Looking for POCKETBOOK360
Looking for PRS505
u'usb\\vid_054c&pid_031e&rev_031:'
Looking for README
Looking for S60
Looking for SHINEBOOK
Looking for SNE
Looking for SOVOS
Looking for SPECTRA
Looking for SWEEX
Looking for TECLAST_K3
Looking for THEBOOK
Devices possibly connected: SONY Device Interface,
Trying to open SONY Device Interface ... OK
Main memory: 'I:\\'
Total space: (410689536, 0, 0)
Press Enter to continue...

I hope I can resolve this. My computer is fine, my ereader is working well, I can add books, convert, etc. in Calibre without any problems, but I just can't add books to my reader.

[theducks]

Please wrap actual error messages in a "spoiler" tag so our screens don't fall onto the floor.

A Sony expert will be along shortly

[didiyy]

Hopefully we will find an answer to the problem. For future reference how do I "wrap actual error message in a spoiler tag"? I thought I was very clever just being able to copy it to my message!

[kovidgoyal]

That error is an IOError, indicating calibre could not write to a location, either in the storage card or the main memory of your device. First thing to see is if it is the storage card. Try a different storage card and see if that works.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by didiyy

Hopefully we will find an answer to the problem. For future reference how do I "wrap actual error message in a spoiler tag"? I thought I was very clever just being able to copy it to my message!

Used the advance button on replies or new message. The "Spoiler button appears Looks like an eye with an X

Spoiler:

Paste lots of stuff between the tags

or
after the fact. Select all the text to be hidden , then click the button

[didiyy]

Kovid, I don't have any storage cards, only the main memory. I have just tried it again, and the first 2 books were fine but with the third I tried I got the same error as previously. With the first two books I manually selected the main memory, with the third I clicked on "send to device" and this one failed. I am trying to load another one at the moment by manually selecting the main menu, but it has now been trying for11 minutes, so I would guess this will fail as well.
DiDiyy

[chaley]

The error is happening when calibre tries to write the sony's database. I have seen similar errors in other situations when the file being written exceeds some magic microsoft-determined size.

Questions:
1) What version of windows are you running?
2) How many books do you have on your reader?
3) Do you have lots of collections?
4) Do the collections contain many books?

[speakingtohe]

I am just ignoring all the errors this week as I assume they are operator induced
How I managed to have all the file names (shown under info on the PRS-600) having the calibre folder number appended to them is beyond me.

Now I have a kindle 3 which I got for my mother and it seems to induce add_book errors.

My mantra of the week is if you get it on the reader and read it, who cares what it is called and how it is sorted.

My brain obviously needed a holiday and will be back in town eventually

[chaley]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

How I managed to have all the file names (shown under info on the PRS-600) having the calibre folder number appended to them is beyond me.

This one is easy. Calibre adds those numbers. It no longer needs to, but taking them off would cause books to be duplicated.

Hmmmm... perhaps it is time for a tweak. One could set the tweak and then reload the reader from scratch, eliminating both the duplicates problem and the number.

[speakingtohe]

Perhaps you could tweak my brain for me. I always get duplicates when I send a book that is already on the Sony reader, as many as 6 with no changes whatever on the last 5, I was just curious.

On the Kindle no duplicates unless I change the author or title and no appended folder number.

I do get this error but it has probably been addressed elsewhere...

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 297, in dispatch
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 753, in metadata_downloaded
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 1384, in set_books_in_library
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 593, in get_metadata
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

[Perkin]

Originally Posted by chaley

One could set the tweak and then reload the reader from scratch, eliminating both the duplicates problem and the number.

What would happen to books that aren't in the library your uploading from, and have been upped from a different library?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Perhaps you could tweak my brain for me. I always get duplicates when I send a book that is already on the Sony reader, as many as 6 with no changes whatever on the last 5, I was just curious.

Are you using multiple libraries? Is that number changing? Shouldn't happen if only one library with no export/import of the book.

I do get this error but it has probably been addressed elsewhere...

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 297, in dispatch
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 753, in metadata_downloaded
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 1384, in set_books_in_library
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 593, in get_metadata
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

There was a bug in one of the calibre releases/betas that did this. What are you running?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Perkin

What would happen to books that aren't in the library your uploading from, and have been upped from a different library?

There could be several questions here.

1) If the number is removed, then sending a book to the sony will overwrite any book on the sony that matches the device file template. Assuming that the template has author and title in it, this seems like correct behavior. If the number is there, then you will get another copy unless the number magically matches (vanishingly low probability).

2) Removing the number has no effect on device book matching across libraries.

Did I answer the question?

[Perkin]

didiyy - sorry, we seem to have hijacked your thread

chaley
Sort of answered, it was the 'from scratch' I was half-worried about as some people may not have a backup of some books on their reader (not me I've learned that lesson! ), and I wasn't sure how you were going to redo/reset the reader's library.

As long as your assumption regarding author/title is correct, there shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps have a warning, if writing to device and both aren't included in template.

[speakingtohe]

There was a bug in one of the calibre releases/betas that did this. What are you running

7.901
I will download the next one if there is one
Thank you