The NY Times recipe is crashing with 0.7.30. In Calibre, there is no Python traceback at all, suggesting it's not a recipe issue (which worked fine in 0.7.29). Here is the trace (verbose debug-mode) running in a command line window using e-book-convert.
Code:
C:\Users\Nick\Calibre Library>start /low /b ebook-convert nyt.recipe nyt.mobi output-profile=kindle
--debug-pipeline=nytdir -vv --verbose --username=xx --password=xx
C:\Users\Nick\Calibre Library>Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.30
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': u'nytdir',
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'extra_css': None,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': '(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\
s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
'header_regex': '(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\
s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x05774350>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'lrf': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x05774530>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'password': u'canonto',
'personal_doc': '[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'rescale_images': False,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'username': u'nickredding',
'verbose': 3}
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
TODAY= 2010-11-27
EARLIEST= 2010-11-20
1% Fetching feeds...
.... ( more index info ) ....
Queued 91 articles
1% Got feeds from index page
1% Trying to download cover...
34% Downloading cover from http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/11/27/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg
1% Generating masthead...
34% Masthead image downloaded
That's how it ends--Windows reports the program ebook-convert has stopped woirking. From Calibre, the job status ends at "Queued 91 articles."