calibre 0.6.17 (linux) segfaults when trying to upload books

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Just upgraded to calibre 0.6.17 on Linux (Mandriva 2009.1) using the binary installer method.

Now I can't upload a single book (Sony PRS-505), it immediately segfaults with:

/usr/bin/calibre: line 10: 11603 Segmentation fault $loader "$@"

I've had no problems uploading books with 0.6.16 (or other previous versions).

Any ideas? Is there an easy way to downgrade to 0.6.16 in the meanwhile?

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Just upgraded to 0.6.18.

Same error during installation as already mentioned:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 176, in setup_completion
ImportError: cannot import name titles

But calibre still crashes whenever I try to upload a book:

$ calibre
link hasn't been detected!
link hasn't been detected!
/usr/bin/calibre: line 11: 10481 Segmentation fault $loader "$@"

Part of the uploaded file is actually on the reader, it seems to crash halfway through the uploading process.

Again, never had problems uploading with any version prior to 0.6.17.

[kovidgoyal]

the segfault is caused by some incompatible library you'll have to enable core dumps and get a backtrace to debug further.

The installation error can be ignored.

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I created the core dump, it crashes in /lib/libuuid.so.1:

$gdb /opt/calibre/loader core.4907
GNU gdb 6.8-6mdv2009.1 (Mandriva Linux release 2009.1)
...
Reading symbols from /opt/calibre/libpython2.6.so.1.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /opt/calibre/libpython2.6.so.1.0
...
Core was generated by `/opt/calibre/loader -v'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 4907]
[New process 4921]
[New process 4940]
[New process 4937]
[New process 4931]
[New process 4918]
[New process 4922]
[New process 4923]
#0 0xb57d51e6 in get_random_fd () at gen_uuid.c:153
153 jrand_seed[0] = getpid() ^ (tv.tv_sec & 0xFFFF);

gen_uuid.c is part of /lib/libuuid.so.1, which is part of libext2fs2

Any idea what changed in calibre between 0.6.16 and 0.6.17 that might cause this?

[kovidgoyal]

The bundled python was upgraded. You have a 32bit or a 64bit machine?

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32bit: 2.6.29.6-desktop-2mnb #1 SMP Sun Aug 16 23:23:47 EDT 2009 i686 Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz GNU/Linux

[kovidgoyal]

try dropping the attached copy of libuuid into /opt/calibre or whatever location you chose to install calibre

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Yep, that's it, now I can upload again! Thanks a lot!