Calibre and Linux / PRS-T1 / Cannot send: No device is connected

[piojosnos]

Hello,

Whenever I try to send a book to my Sony PRS-T1 I get a dialog with:

Cannot send: No device is connected

(Actually if copied to the clipboard the message reads:

calibre, version 0.8.35
ERROR: No device: Cannot send: No device is connected

My current logs are:

Spoiler:

[dmi@cyrano ~]$ /usr/local/calibre/calibre/bin/calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 0.966720104218 with 3 books
Job: 1 Get device information started
DeviceJob: 1 Get device information done, calling callback
DeviceJob: 1 Get device information callback returned
Job: 2 Get list of books on device started
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. Device= PRST1 oncard= None
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: dirs are: /media/usb0/
Job: 1 Get device information finished
No details available.
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: scan from root False /media/usb0/
DEBUG: 0.1 USBMS: count found in cache: 32, count of files in metadata: 32, need_sync: False
DEBUG: 0.1 USBMS: Finished fetching list of books from device. oncard= None
DEBUG: 0.1 SQLite DB Path: /media/usb0/Sony_Reader/database/books.db
DEBUG: 0.1 Device Offset: 0 ms
DeviceJob: 2 Get list of books on device done, calling callback
DeviceJob: 2 Get list of books on device callback returned
Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished
No details available.

And my debug device detection is:

Spoiler:

Version: 0.8.35
USB devices on system:
[['0x5c8', '0x11c', '0x104', 'Foxlink', 'HP Webcam', ''],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.0'],
['0x138a', '0x1', '0x372', '', '', ''],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.2'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.1'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.3'],
['0x54c',
'0x5c2',
'0x226',
'Sony',
'Sony Digital Book Reader',
'148427381012948'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.7'],
['0x3f0', '0x171d', '0x100', 'Broadcom Corp', 'HP Integrated Module', ''],
['0x45e',
'0x9d',
'0x41',
'Microsoft',
'Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop\xc2\xae 2.10',
''],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.0'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.1'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.7']]
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COBY COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52
E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK EX124G
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KINDLE_FIRE KOBO LIBREAIR
LUMIREAD MENTOR MOOVYBOOK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK
NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ODYSSEY ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO
PLAYBOOK POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602
POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 PRST1 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS SPECTRA
STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED
VELOCITYMICRO WEBOS WEXLER

Looking for devices...
(1356, 1474, 550, 'Sony', 'Sony Digital Book Reader', '148427381012948')
Detected possible device PRST1

Devices possibly connected: SONY PRST1 and newer Device Interface,
Trying to open SONY PRST1 and newer Device Interface ... OK
Main memory: '/media/usb0/'
Total space: (1512022016L, 0, 0)

Apparently, Calibre is detecting the device, and in fact it's mounting it automatically (I'm not mounting it, I just plug the device and it gets mounted):

[dmi@cyrano ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
... other things ...
/dev/sdb               1476584    460164   1016420  32% /media/usb0
/dev/sdd                 10202      2258      7944  23% /media/usb3

I have the following two entries in fstab:

[dmi@cyrano ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
... other stuff...
/dev/sdb        /media/usb0     auto    user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sdd        /media/usb3     auto    user,noauto  0       0

Notice that before adding the second entry in the fstab (the sdd one) I got the following error in the logs:

Spoiler:

[dmi@cyrano ~]$ /usr/local/calibre/calibre/bin/calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 0.952822208405 with 3 books
Udisks mount call failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 616, in do_mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 61, in mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 40, in mount
File "site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
File "site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
File "site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
DBusException: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.PermissionDenied: Not Authorized
Unable to mount card (Error code: 1)
Job: 1 Get device information started
DeviceJob: 1 Get device information done, calling callback
DeviceJob: 1 Get device information callback returned
Job: 2 Get list of books on device started
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. Device= PRST1 oncard= None
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: dirs are: /media/usb0/
DEBUG: 0.1 USBMS: scan from root False /media/usb0/
DEBUG: 0.3 USBMS: count found in cache: 32, count of files in metadata: 32, need_sync: False
DEBUG: 0.3 USBMS: Finished fetching list of books from device. oncard= None
DEBUG: 0.3 SQLite DB Path: /media/usb0/Sony_Reader/database/books.db
DEBUG: 0.4 Device Offset: 0 ms
DeviceJob: 2 Get list of books on device done, calling callback
DeviceJob: 2 Get list of books on device callback returned
Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished
No details available.
Job: 1 Get device information finished
No details available.

(And even before that I had another error in the logs that changed when I installed policykit-1, By the way, I'm in debian with fluxbox a simple install, no gnome whatsoever)

At that moment I tried with:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111974

and something like:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ve_in_Nautilus

with no luck, and finally adding sdd to fstab solved the error message.

From the beginning see the device button in the toolbar when it's connected, I can fetch the list of books in the device and can copy a book from the device to my collection, but I just can't send a book from my collection to the device.

I really don't know what else to do, any help is appreciated

Thanks!
Demián

PS: Sorry for the long post, I tried to give as much information as possible.

[kovidgoyal]

Something on your system is likely causing the device to be disconnected when trying to write to it. Check dmesg. Try mounting the device manually before starting calibre.

[piojosnos]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Something on your system is likely causing the device to be disconnected when trying to write to it.

I tested manually mounting the device and writing/creating files from console. It works well. Also, after unsuccessfully attempting to use Calibre to copy the files, I can still write/create files manually from console. I don't know if that helps to diagnose the problem.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Check dmesg.

My dmesg is here, it's very long by the way.

http://pastebin.com/NCLuPMdh

I only understand the surface of that, so I'm not really sure if there is something wrong there.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Try mounting the device manually before starting calibre.

I did it, same result:

Spoiler:

[dmi@cyrano ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             2.0G  858M  1.1G  45% /
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  2.0G  268K  2.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7             9.9G  8.9G  500M  95% /home
/dev/sda1              40G   37G  808M  98% /mnt/data1
/dev/sda8             223G  210G  1.6G 100% /mnt/data2
/dev/sda5             6.0G  4.2G  1.5G  74% /usr
/dev/sda6             9.9G  4.9G  4.5G  53% /usr/local
[dmi@cyrano ~]$ mount /media/usb0/
[dmi@cyrano ~]$ mount /media/usb3/
mount: block device /dev/sdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
[dmi@cyrano ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             2.0G  858M  1.1G  45% /
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  2.0G  268K  2.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7             9.9G  8.9G  500M  95% /home
/dev/sda1              40G   37G  808M  98% /mnt/data1
/dev/sda8             223G  210G  1.6G 100% /mnt/data2
/dev/sda5             6.0G  4.2G  1.5G  74% /usr
/dev/sda6             9.9G  4.9G  4.5G  53% /usr/local
/dev/sdb              1.5G  451M  992M  32% /media/usb0
/dev/sdd               10M  2.3M  7.8M  23% /media/usb3
[dmi@cyrano ~]$

I'm not sure if the read only warning is relevant, because the data disk is the usb0.

My /var/log/messages reported while connecting the device:

Spoiler:

Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.204778] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.342281] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=05c2
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.342291] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.342298] usb 2-2: Product: Sony Digital Book Reader
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.342303] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Sony
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.342308] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 148427381012948
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.342520] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 23 22:34:36 cyrano kernel: [ 3935.349077] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.349694] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-T1           2001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.351679] scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-T1  SD       2001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.353549] scsi 8:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-T1  Setting  2001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.355352] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.356006] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.357072] sd 8:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.371493] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.380497] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 23 22:34:41 cyrano kernel: [ 3940.417517] sd 8:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 23 22:34:56 cyrano kernel: [ 3954.681162] sd 8:0:0:2: [sdd] 20528 512-byte logical blocks: (10.5 MB/10.0 MiB)
Jan 23 22:34:56 cyrano kernel: [ 3954.683038] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 2958976 512-byte logical blocks: (1.51 GB/1.41 GiB)
Jan 23 22:34:56 cyrano kernel: [ 3954.685189] sd 8:0:0:2: [sdd] Write Protect is on
Jan 23 22:34:56 cyrano kernel: [ 3954.698061]  sdd:
Jan 23 22:34:56 cyrano kernel: [ 3954.700070]  sdb:
Jan 23 22:34:56 cyrano kernel: [ 3954.710156]

This looks like the dmesg stuff, to be honest I did not check if they are exactly the same.

I'm still clueless

[kovidgoyal]

Post the output of

calibre-debug -d

as well

[kovidgoyal]

Never mind, I see that you already posted that. I cannot see anything suspicous in the logs. As a workaround, you can disable the T1 driver via Preferences->Plugins in calibre and then use the Connect to folder function to send books to the device.