Thanks!
It always seems to be splash screen it stops at, so hopefully your suggestion will solve it and there is no underlaying problem...
The only "underlaying" I can think of is the fact that I am using Calibre as portable installation on usb HDD (with Library on the same usb HDD).
I will report after trying it without splash screen for a while.
EDIT:
well it didn't take too long...

it now crashed with:
Code:
/mnt/sdd1/calibre-portable.sh: line 222: 13469 Segmentation fault
"`pwd`/calibre" --with-library "$CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY"
and another try:
Code:
/mnt/sdd1/calibre-portable.sh: line 222: 24423 Segmentation fault
"`pwd`/calibre" --with-library "$CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY"
and looking at calibre-portable.sh: line 222
Code:
# original text: calibre --with-library "$CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY"
# below modified to make it portable
"`pwd`/calibre" --with-library "$CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY"
it looks like it might have been cause by the changes I have made
I have now double checked permissions on calibre and reverted back to the original
Code:
calibre --with-library "$CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY"
and I am still having segmentation faults
I am totally confused...