Recipes seem to simply hang for me

Gregfromcos · 11-18-2017, 04:50 PM

I use The Economist recipe frequently and it's had issues lately with stopping frequently, but it would usually run every 2nd or 3rd time I'd try to run it.

But starting today I can't get it to run at all. Have rebooted multiple times. Shut of my AV. Rebooted my router and modem. Upgraded Calibre. I've tried running other recipes that have worked in the past (Atlantic, New Yorker, NPR) but they all are doing the same thing.

They show that they have started but when I go to jobs window, they all just have a status of Waiting... and say the Progress is unavailable. I've left them run for hours and they don't move. The other thing is, if I try to stop them by "Stopping Selected Jobs" they won't stop. I have to close Calibre.

Ideas on What should I try next?

kovidgoyal · 11-18-2017, 08:57 PM

Your symptoms are typical of security software blocking calibre worker processes because they conclude they are malware as they access the internet a lot. You say you already turned off your AV, are you sure you did? Modern AV tries very hard to resist being turned off. You can also rty rebooting in safe mode (but with networking enabled).

Gregfromcos · 11-19-2017, 01:44 PM

Tried a few other ways to stop AV with no luck. Rebooted in Safe mode with networking and got the same thing. Finally did a full reinstall and seems to be working again. Very odd.

11-18-2017, 04:50 PM	#1
Gregfromcos Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 56 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Sony PRS-950	Recipes seem to simply hang for me I use The Economist recipe frequently and it's had issues lately with stopping frequently, but it would usually run every 2nd or 3rd time I'd try to run it. But starting today I can't get it to run at all. Have rebooted multiple times. Shut of my AV. Rebooted my router and modem. Upgraded Calibre. I've tried running other recipes that have worked in the past (Atlantic, New Yorker, NPR) but they all are doing the same thing. They show that they have started but when I go to jobs window, they all just have a status of Waiting... and say the Progress is unavailable. I've left them run for hours and they don't move. The other thing is, if I try to stop them by "Stopping Selected Jobs" they won't stop. I have to close Calibre. Ideas on What should I try next?

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11-18-2017, 08:57 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Your symptoms are typical of security software blocking calibre worker processes because they conclude they are malware as they access the internet a lot. You say you already turned off your AV, are you sure you did? Modern AV tries very hard to resist being turned off. You can also rty rebooting in safe mode (but with networking enabled).

11-19-2017, 01:44 PM	#3
Gregfromcos Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 56 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Sony PRS-950	Tried a few other ways to stop AV with no luck. Rebooted in Safe mode with networking and got the same thing. Finally did a full reinstall and seems to be working again. Very odd.