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bloovis · 09-29-2009, 02:11 PM

I just installed calibre 0.6.14 on Linux Mint 6 (Ubuntu 8.10) and it mostly seems to work. But converting a PDF to any other format always seems to result in a segmentation fault. This also happens using the ebook-convert program from the command line. Here's what happened when I tried to convert a copy of "Sense and Sensibility":

Code:

% ebook-convert sense11p.pdf  sense11p.mobi
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: PDF Input running on /home/bloovis/shared/doc/books/Austen/sense11p.pdf
/usr/bin/ebook-convert: line 10: 28776 Segmentation fault      $loader "$@"

I've had the same segfault converting a few other files (geeky stuff like AMD and Intel processor manuals).

I also have calibre 0.6.8 in a separate installation directory, and with that version, ebook-convert succeeds in converting the Austen novel, but hangs on some of my geekier PDFs.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there something I can do to debug this a little more?

09-29-2009, 02:11 PM	#1
bloovis Member Posts: 14 Karma: 12 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Palm Centro	ebook-convert segfaults converting PDF files I just installed calibre 0.6.14 on Linux Mint 6 (Ubuntu 8.10) and it mostly seems to work. But converting a PDF to any other format always seems to result in a segmentation fault. This also happens using the ebook-convert program from the command line. Here's what happened when I tried to convert a copy of "Sense and Sensibility": Code: % ebook-convert sense11p.pdf sense11p.mobi 1% Converting input to HTML... InputFormatPlugin: PDF Input running on /home/bloovis/shared/doc/books/Austen/sense11p.pdf /usr/bin/ebook-convert: line 10: 28776 Segmentation fault $loader "$@" I've had the same segfault converting a few other files (geeky stuff like AMD and Intel processor manuals). I also have calibre 0.6.8 in a separate installation directory, and with that version, ebook-convert succeeds in converting the Austen novel, but hangs on some of my geekier PDFs. Am I doing something wrong? Is there something I can do to debug this a little more?