Can't convert to mobi

mnju · 09-07-2019, 09:13 AM

Since I upgraded to calibre 3.47.1 (on arch linux) I cannot convert epub to mobi anymore. Any book I try to convert gives an error message like the following. If I go back to 3.46 everything works fine.

Spoiler:

kovidgoyal · 09-07-2019, 09:20 AM

There is no actual error in that log which implies it is crashing. Are you using the arch package or the official binary?

mnju · 09-07-2019, 09:46 AM

Calibre says "Failed convert book 1 of 1", and then those lines appear in the detailed log. No mobi files appear in calibre's directory. That's with the arch package. I just tried downloading the official binary and it works. If I reinstall arch's version it fails.

kovidgoyal · 09-07-2019, 10:38 PM

Then report the issue to Arch.

mnju · 09-08-2019, 12:43 AM

Reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63687

eschwartz · 09-08-2019, 04:43 AM

So it seems like the cause of the problem was that the package was built against qt 5.13.1 in staging (one of my colleagues did a rebuild for mathjax), and mnju was running with qt 5.13.0 in stable (since 5.13.1 is still in testing).

Yay to more fragile ABI mismatches. Also no wonder I could not duplicate the issue, since I always run against [testing]. Thanks all for bringing it to our attention, and, we've rolled out a stable rebuild and are in the process of rebuilding for testing too.

Everything should be working momentarily.

...

Incidentally, the error message as shown by ebook-convert involved:

Code:

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "headless" in "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/plugins"
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: headless (from /usr/lib/calibre/calibre/plugins), eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

mnju · 09-08-2019, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Everything should be working momentarily.

Confirmed, calibre-3.47.1-3 works. Thanks.

09-07-2019, 09:13 AM	#1
mnju Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2019 Device: kindle paperwhite	Can't convert to mobi Since I upgraded to calibre 3.47.1 (on arch linux) I cannot convert epub to mobi anymore. Any book I try to convert gives an error message like the following. If I go back to 3.46 everything works fine. Spoiler: Convert book 1 of 1 (book1) Conversion options changed from defaults: output_profile: u'kindle_pw3' verbose: 2 read_metadata_from_opf: u'/tmp/calibre_3.47.1_tmp_kPi0TC/K726fD.opf' Resolved conversion options calibre version: 3.47.1 {'asciiize': False, 'author_sort': None, 'authors': None, 'base_font_size': 0.0, 'book_producer': None, 'change_justification': u'original', 'chapter': u"//[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s((chapter\|book\|section\|part)\\s+)\|((prolog\|pr ologue\|epilogue)(\\s+\|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']", 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak', 'comments': None, 'cover': None, 'debug_pipeline': None, 'dehyphenate': True, 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True, 'disable_font_rescaling': False, 'dont_compress': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'embed_all_fonts': False, 'embed_font_family': None, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'expand_css': False, 'extra_css': None, 'extract_to': None, 'filter_css': u'', 'fix_indents': True, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': True, 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x7fa19a3baa90>, 'insert_blank_line': False, 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5, 'insert_metadata': False, 'isbn': None, 'italicize_common_cases': True, 'keep_ligatures': False, 'language': None, 'level1_toc': None, 'level2_toc': None, 'level3_toc': None, 'line_height': 0.0, 'linearize_tables': False, 'margin_bottom': 5.0, 'margin_left': 5.0, 'margin_right': 5.0, 'margin_top': 5.0, 'markup_chapter_headings': True, 'max_toc_links': 50, 'minimum_line_height': 120.0, 'mobi_file_type': u'old', 'mobi_ignore_margins': False, 'mobi_keep_original_images': False, 'mobi_toc_at_start': False, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_inline_navbars': True, 'no_inline_toc': False, 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindlePaperWhite3Outpu t object at 0x7fa19a3c62d0>, 'page_breaks_before': u'/', 'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]', 'prefer_author_sort': False, 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'pretty_print': False, 'pubdate': None, 'publisher': None, 'rating': None, 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'/tmp/calibre_3.47.1_tmp_kPi0TC/K726fD.opf', 'remove_fake_margins': True, 'remove_first_image': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5, 'renumber_headings': True, 'replace_scene_breaks': u'', 'search_replace': '[]', 'series': None, 'series_index': None, 'share_not_sync': False, 'smarten_punctuation': False, 'sr1_replace': None, 'sr1_search': None, 'sr2_replace': None, 'sr2_search': None, 'sr3_replace': None, 'sr3_search': None, 'start_reading_at': None, 'subset_embedded_fonts': False, 'tags': None, 'timestamp': None, 'title': None, 'title_sort': None, 'toc_filter': None, 'toc_threshold': 6, 'toc_title': None, 'transform_css_rules': '[]', 'unsmarten_punctuation': False, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running on /tmp/calibre_3.47.1_tmp_kPi0TC/kIAjrd.epub Found HTML cover titlepage.xhtml Parsing all content... Parsing text/part0000_split_000.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_001.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_002.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_003.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_017.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_004.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_005.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_006.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_007.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_008.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_018.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_009.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_010.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_012.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_013.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_011.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_019.html ... Parsing page_styles.css ... Parsing text/part0000_split_016.html ... Parsing stylesheet.css ... Parsing titlepage.xhtml ... Parsing text/part0000_split_015.html ... Parsing text/part0000_split_014.html ... Reading TOC from NCX... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Removing fake margins... Found 20 items of level: div_1 Found 18 items of level: div_2 Found 502 items of level: p_2 div_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'': 19}) div_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'': 19}) div_2 left margin stats: Counter() div_2 right margin stats: Counter() p_2 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 487, u'4.17%': 14, u'18.33%': 1}) p_2 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 502}) Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Trimming u'titlepage.xhtml' from manifest Creating MOBI Output... Serializing resources... Creating MOBI 6 output Generating in-line TOC... Applying case-transforming CSS... Parsing manglecase.css ... Parsing tocstyle.css ... Last edited by theducks; 09-07-2019 at 11:40 AM. Reason: SPOILER added

09-08-2019, 04:43 AM	#6
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	So it seems like the cause of the problem was that the package was built against qt 5.13.1 in staging (one of my colleagues did a rebuild for mathjax), and mnju was running with qt 5.13.0 in stable (since 5.13.1 is still in testing). Yay to more fragile ABI mismatches. Also no wonder I could not duplicate the issue, since I always run against [testing]. Thanks all for bringing it to our attention, and, we've rolled out a stable rebuild and are in the process of rebuilding for testing too. Everything should be working momentarily. ... Incidentally, the error message as shown by ebook-convert involved: Code: qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "headless" in "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/plugins" This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: headless (from /usr/lib/calibre/calibre/plugins), eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb. Aborted (core dumped) Last edited by eschwartz; 09-08-2019 at 04:51 AM.

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09-07-2019, 09:20 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,365 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There is no actual error in that log which implies it is crashing. Are you using the arch package or the official binary?

09-07-2019, 09:46 AM	#3
mnju Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2019 Device: kindle paperwhite	Calibre says "Failed convert book 1 of 1", and then those lines appear in the detailed log. No mobi files appear in calibre's directory. That's with the arch package. I just tried downloading the official binary and it works. If I reinstall arch's version it fails.

09-07-2019, 10:38 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,365 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Then report the issue to Arch.

09-08-2019, 12:43 AM	#5
mnju Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2019 Device: kindle paperwhite	Reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63687

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