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samalex · 10-09-2010, 01:54 PM

Hi,

I'm using Calibre 0.7.23 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and hope to send books to my DroidX running Android 2.2 and WordPlayer 3. Calibre picks up the Android phone with no problems, but when it tries to do anything it gets this error:

(30, 'Read-only file system')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 69, in run
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 312, in _books
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 162, in books
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 304, in sync_booklists
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 301, in write_prefix
IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: u'/media/Motorola/metadata.calibre'

The file system isn't read only as I can go into the device and write files, so I'm not sure way Calibre is reporting it can't write to it. Something that may or may not be the problem is when I connect the DroidX to my laptop both the 16 Gig SD card are mounted along with what Linux picks up as a CD-ROM with motorola drivers. Calibre is picking up two devices (see picture) but whether i send a book to 'main memory' or 'storage card A' both report the Read Only error.

Any suggestions? Thanks --

Sam

10-09-2010, 01:54 PM	#1
samalex Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: none	Read Only error on DroidX when trying to use as Device on Calibre Hi, I'm using Calibre 0.7.23 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and hope to send books to my DroidX running Android 2.2 and WordPlayer 3. Calibre picks up the Android phone with no problems, but when it tries to do anything it gets this error: (30, 'Read-only file system') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 69, in run File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 312, in _books File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 162, in books File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 304, in sync_booklists File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 301, in write_prefix IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: u'/media/Motorola/metadata.calibre' The file system isn't read only as I can go into the device and write files, so I'm not sure way Calibre is reporting it can't write to it. Something that may or may not be the problem is when I connect the DroidX to my laptop both the 16 Gig SD card are mounted along with what Linux picks up as a CD-ROM with motorola drivers. Calibre is picking up two devices (see picture) but whether i send a book to 'main memory' or 'storage card A' both report the Read Only error. Any suggestions? Thanks -- Sam Attached Thumbnails Last edited by samalex; 10-09-2010 at 02:10 PM.