[phisalis]

Hi folks

I posted this problem in the introduction forum (I'm new here) but this is probably a better place. A list of Calibre provided details is included in the original post.

I thought no news was downloading, because the error message says 'Failed to download news' but it seems it is downloading, converting successfully but is then being abandoned in the /tmp directory with an incorrect error message.

The news in /tmp is in the form of a .mobi file with a random string for a filename. Calibre then deletes it from /tmp when it quits - so I'd assumed it really was a news download failure.

I'm running Xubuntu 11.04 but I spent a weekend trying different linux distributions including Mint, lubuntu, fedora and ubuntu in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. In these I tried the packaged version of Calibre as well as the latest binary. I get the same result - Calibre downloads, converts and then abandons the file.

The fatal error appears to be with ICE - whatever that is. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

Finally, all other Net services work. I have no firewall or proxy set. The PC goes out through a router and so does my wife's windows XP laptop, on which calibre works fine. The problem appears to be internal.

Thanks