Calibre won't start: Linux

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

yeah nfs and sqlite dont go well together. You can change the location calibre looks for the database file by editing calibre2.ini

Couldn't resolve property: linearGradient5167
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('calibre==0.4.83', 'gui_scripts', 'calibre')()
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 1346, in main
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 72, in __init__
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 1254, in read_settings
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 119, in dirname
return split(p)[0]
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 77, in split
i = p.rfind('/') + 1
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'

That doesn't work for me. If I hand edit the ini I get the message above. If I locate library1.db anywhere outside the root of my home directory I get other artifacts:

Snapshot1.png: library1.db is located in /home/jeff/Documents - the various db fields are misaligned. Resizing calibre does not affect this.

Snapshot2.png: library1.db lives in the root of my home directory, and all is well. Note that library1.db can be a symlink to another location and all is still well.

[kovidgoyal]

Not sure what's what's wrong with snaphot1.png apart from the columns needing to be resized. Instead of habd editing the config file, use the config dialog to change the location of library1.db.