5.42 Still Won't Work on Mac

[MrSlow&Steady]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

In Terminal.app

rm -rf /Applications/calibre*

Then, install calibre via a fresh download. The in Terminal.app run

/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre


calibre will work fine. If clicking on the calibre icon in finder/dock does not work it will be because the Launch Services cache on your machine is screwed up, resetting it will fix that.

I put in "rm -rf /Applications/calibre" and it did nothing.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by MrSlow&Steady

I put in "rm -rf /Applications/calibre" and it did nothing.

What happens if you do an ls /Applications/calibre* <= note the * after calibre

Last login: Mon Nov 2 20:42:54 on console
davidb@Davids-VMMac ~ % ls /Applications/calibre*
Contents
davidb@Davids-VMMac ~ % rm -rf /Applications/calibre*
davidb@Davids-VMMac ~ % ls /Applications/calibre*
zsh: no matches found: /Applications/calibre*

Another possibility is what type of user are you configured as? A standard user attempting to delete calibre.app should get a mass of Permission denied error messages before the delete fails. Can you see calibre.app in your Applications folder? Can you open your hard drive and type calibre in the search box and post what results show up? See attached image for what I mean. If you see calibre.app (one or more occurences), try moving them to the trash and then emptying the trash.

[Mac Taylor]

Hello,

Calibre still does not work. I have tried everyting that was explained in previous messages but nothing.

Last thing was this : rm -rf /Applications/calibre*

reinstall and tried : /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre

got this message :

Spoiler:

Last login: Mon Nov 2 13:54:14 on ttys000

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
iMac:~ micheldufresne1$ rm -rf /Applications/calibre*
iMac:~ micheldufresne1$ /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/micheldufresne1/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/micheldufresne1/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Inept Epub DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/micheldufresne1/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/eReader PDB 2 PML.zip'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 134, in __init__
File "calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 148, in init_iaction
File "calibre/customize/__init__.py", line 614, in load_actual_plugin
File "importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 184, in exec_module
File "calibre_plugins.exlibris_plugin.ui", line 15, in <module>
from calibre_plugins.exlibris_plugin.main import MainDialog
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 177, in exec_module
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 173, in get_code
File "calibre_plugins.exlibris_plugin.main", line 179
self.include_spine.setText(str(newRow + 1))
^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 134, in __init__
File "calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 148, in init_iaction
File "calibre/customize/__init__.py", line 614, in load_actual_plugin
File "importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 184, in exec_module
File "calibre_plugins.personnaliseur.ui", line 14, in <module>
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 184, in exec_module
File "calibre_plugins.personnaliseur.dialogue", line 15, in <module>
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 184, in exec_module
File "calibre_plugins.personnaliseur.job", line 20, in <module>
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 177, in exec_module
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 173, in get_code
File "calibre_plugins.personnaliseur.fonctions", line 374
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 11-12: truncated \uXXXX escape

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "linecache.py", line 95, in updatecache
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'calibre_plugins.personnaliseur.job'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/main.py", line 292, in initialize_db_stage2
File "calibre/gui2/main.py", line 231, in start_gui
File "calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 138, in __init__
File "traceback.py", line 163, in print_exc
File "traceback.py", line 103, in print_exception
File "traceback.py", line 509, in __init__
File "traceback.py", line 366, in extract
File "traceback.py", line 288, in line
File "linecache.py", line 16, in getline
File "linecache.py", line 47, in getlines
File "linecache.py", line 103, in updatecache
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 167, in get_source
File "encodings/utf_8_sig.py", line 23, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 2952: invalid continuation byte

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "linecache.py", line 95, in updatecache
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'calibre_plugins.personnaliseur.job'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/main.py", line 353, in initialize
File "calibre/gui2/main.py", line 332, in initialize_db
File "calibre/gui2/main.py", line 297, in initialize_db_stage2
File "traceback.py", line 167, in format_exc
File "traceback.py", line 120, in format_exception
File "traceback.py", line 524, in __init__
File "traceback.py", line 536, in _load_lines
File "traceback.py", line 536, in _load_lines
File "traceback.py", line 534, in _load_lines
File "traceback.py", line 288, in line
File "linecache.py", line 16, in getline
File "linecache.py", line 47, in getlines
File "linecache.py", line 103, in updatecache
File "calibre/customize/zipplugin.py", line 167, in get_source
File "encodings/utf_8_sig.py", line 23, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 2952: invalid continuation byte
Abort trap: 6
iMac:~ micheldufresne1$

So I will return to 5.1.0 that is working.

My question is : What change in calibre between 5.1.0 and 5.2.0 that can cause crash ?


Sorry for my bad english.

[MrSlow&Steady]

Originally Posted by DNSB

What happens if you do an ls /Applications/calibre* <= note the * after calibre



Another possibility is what type of user are you configured as? A standard user attempting to delete calibre.app should get a mass of Permission denied error messages before the delete fails. Can you see calibre.app in your Applications folder? Can you open your hard drive and type calibre in the search box and post what results show up? See attached image for what I mean. If you see calibre.app (one or more occurences), try moving them to the trash and then emptying the trash.

I did put the * in and it still didn't work.

[kovidgoyal]

@Mac Taylor: You have a bunch of broken third party plugins. Run calibre as


/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre --ignore-plugins


and it will start up fine, then go to preferences->plugins and disable/uninstall the third party plugins. And then you should be able to start calibre normally.

[Mac Taylor]

Hello,

After a little bit of looking into plugins, in 5.1.0, I found one that was not updated for long. Sorry did not think of taking the name. I uninstalled it. Quit 5.1.0, start 5.4.2 and it is working. Thank you very much to showing me the way. I did not think of plugins as a problem. Now I know.

Mac Taylor

[xxyzz]

I'm using calibre 5.4.2 on mac 10.15.7. When I open an ebook file on finder, the ebook-viewer icon will pop up on the dock but the app itself doesn't show. If I click that icon, the viewer app will show as usual.