Call for testers

[coljoe]

Ups.

[wheels2040]

Beta 9 on OS X, getting an error converting RTF's.

ControlError: Worker process died unexpectedly
Log:
Converting RTF to XML...

[kovidgoyal]

Attach the rtf or send it to me.

[wheels2040]

Attached. Happens with any RTF. Also get a python error

Process:         python [1143]
Path:            /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/python
Identifier:      python
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  calibre [1045]

Date/Time:       2008-09-07 21:06:33.111 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ffffffff
Crashed Thread:  0

[kovidgoyal]

It's not the rtf. I think there's a conflict between calibre's version of a library and the one in OS X 10.5. Can someone else with 10.5 try to convert an RTF and report what happens?

Also does converting the RTF from the command line via

rtf2lrf file.rtf

work?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

It's not the rtf. I think there's a conflict between calibre's version of a library and the one in OS X 10.5. Can someone else with 10.5 try to convert an RTF and report what happens?

I converted an .rtf. No error during conversion. However, when I tried to view it, I received the following error.

error: unpack requires a string argument of length 6
Failed to render document
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/gui2/lrf_renderer/main.py", line 32, in run
self.lrf = LRFDocument(self.stream)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/lrfparser.py", line 19, in __init__
LRFMetaFile.__init__(self, stream)
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 440, in __init__
if self.lrf_header != LRFMetaFile.LRF_HEADER:
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 64, in __get__
return obj.unpack(start=self._start, fmt="

BOb

[kovidgoyal]

In your case it looks like it's creating a truncated LRF file. Can you save it to disk and attach it here. Also what happens when you try it using the rtf2lrf command?

[kovidgoyal]

Released b10 with a few changes to the RTF system that hopefully fix the problem. Try it and let me know.

[pilotbob]

I tried to reconvert with b10 and display. Conversion worked but display didn't.

The .rtf is attached.

BOb

[pilotbob]

When I close/quit b10 now on Mac 10.5.4 I get an error that calibre quit unexpectedly.

BOb

[Gromit]

Also on a Mac. B10 crashing repeatedly after every couple of actions. Needed B10 to recognise UK Sony Reader. Also get the unexpected error when closing. Also crashes whenever I try to bulk anything (add books, send to device)

[kovidgoyal]

Yeah looks like the change i made for b10 is making things worse. I'm looking into alternative solutions

[birch01]

Hi,

I have downloaded the beta 10 version and tried it. Have to say it looks great. The only problem I have noticed is that when you import books, the program creates a directory for the books. Let's say that the imported book has a lousy metadata. When you update that metadata the book gets moved accordingly, but the old directory doesn't get deleted, which could become annoying in time, after importing 3000 books with bad metadata for example. You would have about 3000 empty directories in the library.

I'm using binary package on ubuntu 32 bit. Just in case it's important.

[birch01]

Just one more thing. I love the auto generating of author sort field. But I noticed that the format is like this:

Anna Trokes -> Trokes; Anna

Is that ";" there a typo? Or was it intentoinal? I haven't seen anyone using that syntax before. Usually it's ",". It's not a big deal but if it's not a typo I would love to be able to configure that if in Configuration window or somewhere.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by birch01

Hi,

I have downloaded the beta 10 version and tried it. Have to say it looks great. The only problem I have noticed is that when you import books, the program creates a directory for the books. Let's say that the imported book has a lousy metadata. When you update that metadata the book gets moved accordingly, but the old directory doesn't get deleted, which could become annoying in time, after importing 3000 books with bad metadata for example. You would have about 3000 empty directories in the library.

I'm using binary package on ubuntu 32 bit. Just in case it's important.

Hmm strange, I don't see this behavior. It deletes empty directories for me. Is there a particular metadata change that causes it (i.e. only title, or only author or only both)