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Hi all,

As I just registered to this list I may experience some startup problems, but I, too, cannot access the Kindle device from calibre. Here's what I've done so far:

1. connect the Kindle:

2. I do not use auto-mounting, but my syslog shows the device is recognized:

Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.172124] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.317444] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1949, idProduct=0004
Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.317454] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.317461] usb 2-1: Product: Amazon Kindle
Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.317467] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Amazon
Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.317472] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: B01114071464AASX
Mar 26 18:48:28 localhost kernel: [38283.322516] scsi10 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
Mar 26 18:48:29 localhost kernel: [38284.322409] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kindle Internal Storage 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Mar 26 18:48:29 localhost kernel: [38284.333743] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

3. Unfortunately, the debug option tells me calibre can't connect to the device:

Version: 0.8.41
USB devices on system:
[['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.7'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.0'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.2'],
['0x64e',
'0xa103',
'0x100',
'SuYin',
'Acer Crystal Eye webcam',
'CN0314-SN30-OV03-VA-R02.03.02'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.7'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.2'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.1'],
['0x1949', '0x4', '0x100', 'Amazon', 'Amazon Kindle', 'B01114071464AASX'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.1'],
['0x1d6b', '0x1',
'0x302',
'Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1a.0'],
['0x147e', '0x1000', '0x33', 'TouchStrip', 'Fingerprint Sensor', '']]
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COBY COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52
E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK EX124G
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KINDLE_FIRE KOBO LIBREAIR
LUMIREAD MENTOR MOOVYBOOK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK
NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ODYSSEY ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PI2 PICO
PLAYBOOK POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602
POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 PRST1 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS SPECTRA
STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED
VELOCITYMICRO WEBOS WEXLER

Looking for devices...
(6473, 4, 256, 'Amazon', 'Amazon Kindle', 'B01114071464AASX')
Detected possible device KINDLE2

Devices possibly connected: Kindle 2/3/4/Touch Device Interface,
Trying to open Kindle 2/3/4/Touch Device Interface ... failed
Opening of the following devices failed
<calibre.devices.kindle.driver.KINDLE2 object at 0xa5df12c>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/devices/__init__.py", line 124, in debug
dev.open(det, None)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 860, in open
self.open_linux()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 615, in open_linux
%self.__class__.__name__)
DeviceError: Unable to detect the KINDLE2 disk drive. Either the device has already been ejected, or your kernel is exporting a deprecated version of SYSFS.


4. To be sure: the Kindle device is still attached to my computer. I also checked the kernel parameters, as per the advice given in the userguide and they were as intended:

grep SYSFS_DEPRECATED /boot/config-`uname -r`
# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set

grep CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN /boot/config-`uname -r`
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y


5. Thinking that it might be a permissions-problem I tried to connect to the kindle using calibre as root, but this doesn't alter calibre's behavior


6. Following Kovid's suggestion to re-enable the kindle plugin didn't work either.

Additional info: My computer runs debian linux (wheezy [=testing]).


I'm running out of options. Any suggestion what to do next?

Thanks in advance for any input,
Cheers,

Frank.