[jquest]

Hi,

I'm running under ubuntu 9.04 amd64. Calibre version 6.20. Installed using binary installer as an upgrade from 6.16.

I want to run the calibre-server under port 80, so my kindle will connect to it ok. I've changed the apache on this system to use port 81, so no conflict there I hope.

The GUI won't let me change the port to anything below 1025, so I tried to run from the command line:

calibre-server -p 80

as a test. When I run as a non sudo user I get the following:

xxx@amd:~$ calibre-server -p 80
Exception in thread HTTPServer Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/cherrypy/process/servers.py", line 73, in _start_http_thread
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 1596, in start
error: [Errno 13] Permission denied

If I do a sudo -i and run as root I get:

root@amd:/home/nboddie# calibre-server -p 80
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 48, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/library/server.py", line 867, in main
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/library/database2.py", line 407, in __init__
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists
st = os.stat(path)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

Is this doable?

Cheers,

Ned