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Old 05-15-2015, 08:56 PM   #7
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That indicates that firefox is not providing a working stdout/stderr to the process it launches. All the calibre gui tools require working stdout/stderr. You can pass the --detach argument to them to have them auto-redirect to /dev/null

So use

ebook-viewer --detach file.epub

Presumably, firefox simply passes the file handles it gets to its child processes, so your real question is why does firefox not have working stdout itself.
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