[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by rashkae

This is actually pretty big breakage to my exiting use case. I'll work around it simply by creating a server start script that clones a new copy of the library just for the server, but a server option, (or alternate binary) that does not modify database would be ideal.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I'm afraid that is not going to happen. What is your use case? Remember that you can now connect to a running server with calibredb. ABout the only thing you cant do now, that you could before is run calibre-server and the GUI at the same time. Instead you have to run the server embedded in the GUI.

Originally Posted by rashkae

The server auto starts and runs as a service.. The gui is run when I'm logged in as desktop app.. pretty clear distinction there.

I dealt intend to deal with this by creating wrapper scripts that run things against the server I have launched as a systemd service.

Though I have always used a wrapper script for `calibre`, to make it run calibre-debug -g and log to a /tmp file.

...

Kovid, I cannot figure out how to run either `calibre` or `calibre-debug -g` with the necessary options passed.

calibre-debug: error: no such option: --with-library

calibre: error: no such option: --username

Also, I keep getting errors when I try running calibredb list as a test against the server.

[eschwartz@arch ~]$ calibredb list --with-library "http://0.0.0.0:8080/#Amazon" --username XXXXXX --password XXXX
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibredb", line 20, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 251, in main
    return run_cmd(cmd, opts, args[1:], DBCtx(opts))
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 55, in run_cmd
    ret = m.main(opts, args, dbctx)
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/db/cli/cmd_list.py", line 324, in main
    for_machine=opts.for_machine
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/db/cli/cmd_list.py", line 150, in do_list
    ans = dbctx.run('list', fields, sort_by, ascending, search_text, limit)
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 189, in run
    return self.remote_run(name, m, *args)
  File "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 209, in remote_run
    res = self.br.open_novisit(rq)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 239, in open_novisit
    url_or_request, data, visit=False, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 284, in _mech_open
    response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 195, in open
    response = urlopen(self, req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 352, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 340, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1185, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1154, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1042, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1082, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1038, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 880, in _send_output
    msg += message_body
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in position 0: invalid start byte