Kindle Paperwhite 7 remounting as RO when opening Calibre

[elMoco]

Hi,

I am trying to connect my Kindle Paperwhite 7 to Calibre on my Slackware Linux and I am having problems.

With the device unplugged, I can't see anything mounted (obviously)

root@liet:~# mount | grep -i kindle
root@liet:~#

thenk I just plug the Kindle, still nothing mounted, but I can see the device in my file browser and it is seen in /var/log/messages:

root@liet:~# mount | grep -i kindle
root@liet:~#

May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.511394] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 30 using xhci_hcd
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.643432] usb 2-1: Dual-Role OTG device on non-HNP port
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.644424] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1949, idProduct=0004, bcdDevice= 1.00
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.644425] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.644426] usb 2-1: Product: Amazon Kindle
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.644427] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Amazon
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.644427] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: G090G********L5P
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.648480] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
May 17 22:52:04 liet kernel: [12006.648603] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
May 17 22:52:04 liet mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 30: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-1" 
May 17 22:52:04 liet mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 30 was not an MTP device 
May 17 22:52:05 liet kernel: [12007.673645] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kindle   Internal Storage 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
May 17 22:52:05 liet kernel: [12007.694736] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
May 17 22:52:08 liet kernel: [12009.790476] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 6385664 512-byte logical blocks: (3.27 GB/3.04 GiB)
May 17 22:52:08 liet kernel: [12010.004695] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May 17 22:52:08 liet kernel: [12010.225849]  sde: sde1

next step, I open the kindle device in my file browser, and it is mounted apparently well:

root@liet:~# mount | grep -i kindle
/dev/sde1 on /run/media/jesusm/Kindle type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1973,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sde1 on /var/run/media/jesusm/Kindle type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1973,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro)
root@liet:~#

but then I open Calibre, it detects the kindle, shows me an error and suddenly the kindle is mounted as read-only:

root@liet:~# mount | grep -i kindle
/dev/sde1 on /run/media/jesusm/Kindle type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1973,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sde1 on /var/run/media/jesusm/Kindle type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1973,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro)
root@liet:~#

calibre, version 4.15.0
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

Failed to access files in the main memory of your device. You should contact the device manufacturer for support. Common fixes are: try a different USB cable/USB port on your computer. If you device has a "Reset to factory defaults" type of setting somewhere, use it. Underlying error: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: u'/media/Kindle/driveinfo.calibre'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 90, in run
self.result = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 473, in _get_device_information
info = self.device.get_device_information(end_session=Fal se)
File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 163, in get_device_information
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IOError: Failed to access files in the main memory of your device. You should contact the device manufacturer for support. Common fixes are: try a different USB cable/USB port on your computer. If you device has a "Reset to factory defaults" type of setting somewhere, use it. Underlying error: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: u'/media/Kindle/driveinfo.calibre'

System info:

Linux 5.4.41 #1 SMP Thu May 14 16:36:28 CDT 2020 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz

calibre (calibre 4.15)

KDE Frameworks 5.69.0
Qt 5.13.2 (built against 5.13.2)

Any idea?

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...-connect-to-it

[elMoco]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...-connect-to-it

Thanks!

I looked for the answer, but missed that part