Beta testers for calibre 3.0 needed

[kovidgoyal]

This should ensure there are no duplicates in the library list https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...0382451e215dea

[Divingduck]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Did you restart the server after renaming the library and press refresh in your browser?

Yes I did.
What help at the end was to close calibre and Firefox, start all again.

The e:\ E:\ problem: I found the problem. There is something wrong in calibre's configuration file gui.json. After I delete the entry this porblem was solved.

Edit:
up's, you was faster

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Just a question: which are the libraries that are shown at the home page of the content server?

The 2 I saw were those on the Quick Switch list in the The Calibre GUI

[kovidgoyal]

The quick switch sub-menu is the libraries the GUI knows about.

[nqk]

In 3.0, I'd like to have Saved Search Grouping feature, with the ability to move the groups up and down in the list.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Incidentally, I've got posts from lots of windows and linux users, but I dont think there are any OS X users running the beta. If you are an OS X user, please post, even if you find no bugs.

Does running Calibre in a OSX VM count? If so, in my limited use I haven't run into any bugs yet.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Does running Calibre in a OSX VM count? If so, in my limited use I haven't run into any bugs yet.

Sure, it probably wont test the device sub-system, but everything else should be relevant.

[kovidgoyal]

@nqk: are you refering to saved searches in the editor? if so, that's not going to happen, I've explained why many times before.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Terisa: if you run the server from the calibre GUI it should be all libraries the GUI knows about. You might have to press refresh in the browser to see them. When you say looking for books by genre, you mean doing a search inside a virtual library?

@Kovid, in the "quick switch" there are more than 20 libraries, only 10 appear at the content server. Not the most used per the switch, but perhaps the last used.

And when talking about genre (sorry), I was talking about a hierarchical column. But it works now, so it must have been a glitch (or a misconfiguration at my desktop, now I'm at other one).

[Terisa de morgan]

Win 10, 64 bits, Firefox. Library with composed columns using template functions:

1. Open library in calibre: Composed columns are right
2. Switch library in calibre
3. Start content server
4. Access to the library in content server: Template functions are not found, so cmpose4d columns are wrong
5. Switch in calibre to the first library: composed columns are wrong

[chaley]

Problem with file caching: I was testing CC, using username security and switching libraries. At some point cover thumbs stopped arriving and I started seeing the following exception in the server logs:

Unhandled exception in state: State: _job_done Client: 192.168.120.3:50936 Request: GET /get/thumb/1343_67_67/Library.test_small HTTP/1.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\loop.py", line 518, in tick
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\loop.py", line 278, in _job_done
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\pool.py", line 35, in run
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\http_response.py", line 439, in run_request_handler
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\routes.py", line 306, in dispatch
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\content.py", line 299, in get
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\content.py", line 140, in cover
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\srv\content.py", line 93, in create_file_copy
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\utils\shared_file.py", line 168, in share_open
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\utils\shared_file.py", line 161, in os_open
  File "C:\CBH_Data\calibre.git\calibre_dev\src\calibre\utils\shared_file.py", line 159, in os_open
WindowsError: [Error 3] CreateFileW: The system cannot find the path specified.

Unfortunately I don't know what I did. The problem went away when I restarted calibre to try to do controlled experiments.

I am running on Win10 Pro from source at commit:

Commit: 757097543d7b707c5d8bef9c4ab03df2a5fab259 [7570975]
Parents: 4d75debbf9
Author: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: 13 May 2017 18:05:55
Committer: Kovid Goyal
Fix library restriction not fully case-insensitive

The binary is 2.99.1.

Looking at the code, what I see would happen if files disappear from the copy cache. I don't know what makes that happen. I don't have any non-standard tmp cleaners.

Perhaps an attempt to recopy should be made if the share_open on line 92 fails? Or an "exists" test added to line 67?

[kovidgoyal]

@Terisa: that is a limitation of the way user defined functions work. Basically they are global, so only the functions from the current library can be active. I'm afraid there isn;t reallya way around that. You should define your functions in every library.

[kovidgoyal]

@chaley: Hmm there was another report of this, from PandThePanda, IIRC. It would be nice to track down what is causing it. Of course it can probably be worked around by detecting the deletion and resetting.

[kovidgoyal]

@chaley: This should prevent the error, though I would still like to know the cause. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...de338bbca86eb9

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@chaley: Hmm there was another report of this, from PandThePanda, IIRC. It would be nice to track down what is causing it. Of course it can probably be worked around by detecting the deletion and resetting.

I can think of three unusual things:

1) I was using the debugger in CC. In particular, CC would hit a breakpoint between making a request and dealing with the response. If the timeouts in calibre are short (less than a minute or so) then they could be triggered.

2) Several books in the test library really don't have covers. I can't see why this matters, but ...

3) I turned authentication off using the checkbox, did some stuff, then turned it back on. The failure came after turning it back on. I restarted the server after each change of the box by pressing the "Stop Server" button then pressing the "Start Server" button as soon as I could. If there are any async processes kicked off by "Stop Server" then it is possible that they hadn't finished when I restarted it.