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phisalis · 08-23-2011, 08:57 AM

I'm being facetious, dwanthy, of course, but surely it is a Calibre problem if nothing except Calibre suffers from it?

This isn't a new problem for me. I've had it on three different PCs running a wide variety of Linux distributions since version 6.xxx of Calibre (the first I tried). Since those days I'm using a different router and a different ISP as well. These are default Linux installations on perfectly ordinary hardware.

I come back every few months to try it again but it never works. So I just keep using my wife's Windows Xp PC for downloads. Saying it isn't a Calibre problem is just disengenuous. If all other software runs fine except yours then the problem is your software - not my computers.

I have no idea what Calibre does with ICE at the end of the process. I'm a plumber, not a software engineer. I have neither the tools nor the knowledge to watch what Calibre does when it interacts with ICE. But I do know it doesn't do whatever other programs do because other programs don't die with an error message when they interact with ICE. So it is a Calibre problem unless you're saying that Calibre isn't supposed to run on Xubuntu.

Finally, as Calibre does complete the news download if I delete the ICEauthority file each time then it is clearly an error in the way that Calibre handles the ICE file - an error other software on my system doesn't make.

Thank you for listening and I too hope someone understands the origins of this problem and can point me in a rather more useful direction than 'Definitely not a calibre induced problem'. Of course it's a Calibre induced problem because I've yet to find another program that does it.

08-23-2011, 08:57 AM	#7
phisalis Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: kindle3	Always nice to get a definitive answer I'm being facetious, dwanthy, of course, but surely it is a Calibre problem if nothing except Calibre suffers from it? This isn't a new problem for me. I've had it on three different PCs running a wide variety of Linux distributions since version 6.xxx of Calibre (the first I tried). Since those days I'm using a different router and a different ISP as well. These are default Linux installations on perfectly ordinary hardware. I come back every few months to try it again but it never works. So I just keep using my wife's Windows Xp PC for downloads. Saying it isn't a Calibre problem is just disengenuous. If all other software runs fine except yours then the problem is your software - not my computers. I have no idea what Calibre does with ICE at the end of the process. I'm a plumber, not a software engineer. I have neither the tools nor the knowledge to watch what Calibre does when it interacts with ICE. But I do know it doesn't do whatever other programs do because other programs don't die with an error message when they interact with ICE. So it is a Calibre problem unless you're saying that Calibre isn't supposed to run on Xubuntu. Finally, as Calibre does complete the news download if I delete the ICEauthority file each time then it is clearly an error in the way that Calibre handles the ICE file - an error other software on my system doesn't make. Thank you for listening and I too hope someone understands the origins of this problem and can point me in a rather more useful direction than 'Definitely not a calibre induced problem'. Of course it's a Calibre induced problem because I've yet to find another program that does it.