Calibre won't open on Mac OS X Mavericks after changing font in "Look & Feel"

[blueinfj]

I changed the font in preferences "Look & Feel". Calibre tried to restart, but keeps crashing (i.e. it does not open at all).

What I've tried so far:

- repaired permissions
- repaired volume
- re-installed Calibre (copied calibre.app to the applications folder)
- cleared font cache with Onyx
- validated fonts

Here's the crash report from console.app:

edited to delete crash report

Thanks in advance for your help

ETA:
I've just run the calibre-debug -g:

Spoiler:

calibre 1.28 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Darwin-13.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '13.1.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64')
Python 2.7.5
OSX: ('10.9.2', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64')
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/blueinfj/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Goodreads Covers.zip'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 567, in initialize_plugins
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 53, in load_plugin
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 197, in load
File "lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 179, in load_module
File "calibre_plugins.dummy1.__init__", line 16, in <module>
ImportError: No module named covers
DEBUG: 0.0 iOSReaderApp:initialize(v1.3.5)
DEBUG: 0.0 iOSReaderApp:compile_ui()
DEBUG: 0.1 iOSReaderApp:_init_prefs(prefs created under v1.1.2)
DEBUG: 0.1 debug_libimobiledevice: False
DEBUG: 0.1 debug_plugin: True
DEBUG: 0.1 development_mode: False
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_collection_field: u'Status'
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_edit_collections_cb: True
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_protect_rb: False
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_replace_rb: False
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_update_rb: True
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_word_count_field: u'Word Count'
DEBUG: 0.1 marvin_word_count_lookup: u'words'
DEBUG: 0.1 preferred_reader_app: u'Marvin'
DEBUG: 0.1 iOSReaderApp:_get_connected_device_info()
DEBUG: 1.2 Too many connected iDevices
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/blueinfj/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Goodreads Metadata.zip'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 567, in initialize_plugins
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 53, in load_plugin
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 195, in load
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 179, in load_module
File "calibre_plugins.dummy1.__init__", line 15, in <module>
ImportError: No module named fetch
Starting up...
2014-03-16 22:06:22.657 calibre-debug[2197:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Avenir" and got font with PostScript name "Avenir-Book". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-03-16 22:06:22.658 calibre-debug[2197:507] CoreText performance note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSuboptimalRequest to debug.
2014-03-16 22:06:26.573 calibre-debug[2197:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Avenir" and got font with PostScript name "Avenir-Book". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
Floating point exception: 8

ETA 2:
Thank you, Time Machine!

I restored the gui.json in the Calibre library folder and voila - Calibre starts up again.

[GRiker]

For future reference, a free OS X app AppCleaner will remove all of an app's supporting files when you want to completely uninstall an app. As you've discovered, calibre has supporting files that also need to be removed when uninstalling.

Also, from the debug trace you've posted, it looks like the Goodreads Covers plugin fails during initialization, and you have more than one iDevice connected, which the iOS reader applications plugin is complaining about. But, on the bright side, you're up and running again.

G

[DoctorOhh]

Glad to see you got it back up and running.

Originally Posted by GRiker

Also, from the debug trace you've posted, it looks like the Goodreads Covers plugin fails during initialization

@blueinfj the Goodreads Covers Plugin is deprecated. From the first post of the plugin's thread:

As of Calibre 0.8 this plugin is deprecated and will no longer work. Instead you should use the replacement Goodreads Metadata Source plugin which is compatible with Calibre 0.8 onwards.

This means when you get a chance you should remove the Goodreads Covers Plugin.

[blueinfj]

Originally Posted by DoctorOhh

Glad to see you got it back up and running.



@blueinfj the Goodreads Covers Plugin is deprecated. From the first post of the plugin's thread:



This means when you get a chance you should remove the Goodreads Covers Plugin.

Thanks to both of you :-)

I checked for the Goodreads cover plugin, but can't seem to find it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5g0nhhergo5ax86/plugins.jpg

The only Goodreads plugins that are installed are Goodreads and Goodreads Sync.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by blueinfj

Thanks to both of you :-)

I checked for the Goodreads cover plugin, but can't seem to find it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5g0nhhergo5ax86/plugins.jpg

The only Goodreads plugins that are installed are Goodreads and Goodreads Sync.

@blueinfj - Have a look in the config\plugins folder, to get to config folder go to Preferences->Miscellaneous and click the Open calibre configuration directory button.

BR

[blueinfj]

@BetterRed - Thanks, that did it (I deleted both the Goodreads Covers and Metadata .zip files)

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by blueinfj

@BetterRed - Thanks, that did it (I deleted both the Goodreads Covers and Metadata .zip files)

Good riddance they haven't worked in a long time.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by blueinfj

@BetterRed - Thanks, that did it (I deleted both the Goodreads Covers and Metadata .zip files)

@blueinfj - can you confirm that before deleting those plug-ins that you were able to reproduce your original problem, and after deleting them you couldn't?

BR

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@blueinfj - can you confirm that before deleting those plug-ins that you were able to reproduce your original problem, and after deleting them you couldn't?

BR

From the first post:

Originally Posted by blueinfj

ETA 2:
Thank you, Time Machine!
I restored the gui.json in the Calibre library folder and voila - Calibre starts up again.

Before we pointed out the old plugins.

[blueinfj]

Originally Posted by DoctorOhh

Glad to see you got it back up and running.



@blueinfj the Goodreads Covers Plugin is deprecated. From the first post of the plugin's thread:



This means when you get a chance you should remove the Goodreads Covers Plugin.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@blueinfj - can you confirm that before deleting those plug-ins that you were able to reproduce your original problem, and after deleting them you couldn't?

BR

As DoctorOhh said - I was able to get Calibre up and running after restoring the gui.json from TimeMachine.

I ran the calibre-debug -g (after deleting the old plugins and disabling the debug mode for the iOS reader app) and this is the output:

Spoiler:

Last login: Mon Mar 17 12:33:20 on ttys000
macbook-pro-5:~ blueinfj$ calibre-debug -g
calibre 1.28 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Darwin-13.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '13.1.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64')
Python 2.7.5
OSX: ('10.9.2', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64')
Starting up...
2014-03-17 12:42:37.622 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-03-17 12:42:37.622 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSuboptimalRequest to debug.
2014-03-17 12:42:39.339 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
Started up in 8.60 seconds with 1942 books
2014-03-17 12:42:50.627 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-03-17 12:42:50.628 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-03-17 12:42:50.629 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-03-17 12:42:50.730 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-03-17 12:42:51.323 calibre-debug[5425:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.

[GRiker]

That's normal debug output under OS X. The messages about Lucida Grande are due to an issue with Qt, the UI package that calibre uses. They're not cause for concern.

G

[blueinfj]

Thanks for confirming that. The log looked normal to me, but I'm no expert. ;-)