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Old 03-28-2013, 01:13 PM   #1
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Hi there,

I just started using Calibre, and I think it's great.


However, there are a couple of issues and I can't get them to work:

* I do not get the automatic adding feature to work well yet. It seems that it works fine when I first start Calibre, but it doesn't run anymore later. Is this some kind of scheduled task?

* Same goes for the 'Content Server', it only updates its contents on calibre start-up. Is this expected behaviour?

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Hi there,

I just started using Calibre, and I think it's great.


However, there are a couple of issues and I can't get them to work:

* I do not get the automatic adding feature to work well yet. It seems that it works fine when I first start Calibre, but it doesn't run anymore later. Is this some kind of scheduled task?

* Same goes for the 'Content Server', it only updates its contents on calibre start-up. Is this expected behaviour?

thanks,
The Auto Add feature regularly 'Polls' the configured folder.
Maybe your security software is blocking.
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Old 03-28-2013, 03:42 PM   #3
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The Auto Add feature regularly 'Polls' the configured folder.
Maybe your security software is blocking.
Ok, but if my firewall would block Calibre, it wouldn't auto-add on calibre start up, would it?
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I have a feeling that calibre looks in the pickup location when it starts. After that it has to be running to see new books, I think that's one reason it has the minimise to tray option.

It probably listens for a file added message for the pick up location, these are sent unconditionally by the OS/File System all a program has to do is to listen for the message - thats how Windows, OS/X etc work - message loops. Surely polling went out with 3270 - didn't it. If it actually polled then I reckon Kovid would have put a setting for 'how often" in the Auto Add Configuration

But that's all guess work - I haven't used the feature for a while.

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I have a feeling that calibre looks in the pickup location when it starts. After that it has to be running to see new books, I think that's one reason it has the minimise to tray option.

It probably listens for a file added message for the pick up location, these are sent unconditionally by the OS/File System all a program has to do is to listen for the message - thats how Windows, OS/X etc work - message loops. Surely polling went out with 3270 - didn't it. If it actually polled then I reckon Kovid would have put a setting for 'how often" in the Auto Add Configuration

But that's all guess work - I haven't used the feature for a while.

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Old 03-29-2013, 12:22 AM   #6
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When calibre first starts it scans the auto add folder manually after that it uses whatever file notification infrastructure the OS provides. Presumably file notification for whatever location you have set for auto add does not work. This often happens if the location is on some non-standard filesystem like a non native filesystem, network share, etc.
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Old 03-29-2013, 07:08 AM   #7
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I guess some info on my setup would help

I have an ESXi server with several guests / virtual machines. One of them is my unRAID file server. If you don't know unRAID, it's a linux based NAS server OS. My calibre library is in this server, and any file I put in the auto adding folder will get these file permissions: -rw-rw-rw-

Calibre is running in a Win 7 64bit VM, also running 24/7. I never close calibre, it minimizes to the tray.

Should it work with this set up?
Could I try any tests?
Any option to create a scheduled task that will manually scan the auto add folder, similarly to what happens when calibre starts?

Sorry for so many questions...
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What version of unRAID are you using? I am asking as I have 5.0 RC12a on my server so can do some tests if so desired against that release.

Do you have the autoload folder set up as a mapped drive or using a UNS filename (as these might give different results). I tend to use mapped drives on my system.
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Old 03-29-2013, 08:23 AM   #10
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What version of unRAID are you using? I am asking as I have 5.0 RC12a on my server so can do some tests if so desired against that release.

Do you have the autoload folder set up as a mapped drive or using a UNS filename (as these might give different results). I tend to use mapped drives on my system.
I have RC10.

I have it set up as \\hercules\cache\@downloads\@books\calibre. Would it help to use a mapped drive?

BTW, I've been doing more tests, moving files within the VM in which calibre is installed, but it crashes very often. Where can i check the logs?
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Further info.

I have tried to reproduce the 'not-auto-adding' issue and I can't. I moved ebooks within the same VM in which calibre is installed, from other VMs in the virtual network (ubuntu and unRAID) and from my desktop (also Win 7 64) connected to the virtual network through a hardware switch, and I can't reproduce it

Another issue, with calibre minimized to the system tray, it has crashed very often while doing all this auto adding tests, but it didn't crash a single time when minimized to the task bar

Are there any logs I can check?
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I have RC10.
Any reason you have not moved onto one of the later releases?

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I have it set up as \\hercules\cache\@downloads\@books\calibre. Would it help to use a mapped drive?
I have no idea - it is just that past experience tells me they might produce different results.

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BTW, I've been doing more tests, moving files within the VM in which calibre is installed, but it crashes very often. Where can i check the logs?
I am running both the unRAID server and my Windows system natively (not in VM's) and cannot remember when I last had a crash. Having said that although a particular VM might go wrong I would not expect the system as a whole to crash. I have at times run Calibre (for Windows) under VMware Workstation at times as part of testing things and that has seemed to be stable enough. The unRAID syslog is normally RAM based so do not survive a reboot unless you have installed the Powerdown add-on to write it back to the USB drive when closing down.

I looked at using ESXi as a host for unRAID and it looks an attractive way to run it. I actually have my unRAID system set up so that I can boot into ESXi 5.1 as an option but am not running unRAID that way. I found that it appears the motherboard I have set up does not support 'pass-thru' of my SAS controllers under ESXi and I appear to need that to run unRAID easily under ESXi, particularly with disks larger than 2TB. I have been thinking of having another go at getting unRAID working under ESXi using RDM for the disks instead of PassThru as ESXi would be a very desirable way to run unRAID, but have just not found the time.
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Old 03-29-2013, 02:34 PM   #13
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Any reason you have not moved onto one of the later releases?
I'm not really a RC tester , RC10 looked stable when I went for it since there some talks about making a final (you know what I mean ).

RC11 and RC12, both seemed to have some issues (NFS stale handle, non-compatible NIC driver), but the no-go for me was the issues with SimpleFeatures. Whether is SF or unRAID, I don't really care, I have a pretty stable system right now.

I have an unRAID sandbox with RC11 (that's the beauty of ESXi) and have run some tests, but don't have the time nor the spare hard drives to play with it much.

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I am running both the unRAID server and my Windows system natively (not in VM's) and cannot remember when I last had a crash. Having said that although a particular VM might go wrong I would not expect the system as a whole to crash.
When I said it crashed, I meant Calibre crashed, all my VM (a total of 5, including unRAID) are pretty stable. They are very good boys, they don't go down unless I told them so

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I looked at using ESXi as a host for unRAID and it looks an attractive way to run it. I actually have my unRAID system set up so that I can boot into ESXi 5.1 as an option but am not running unRAID that way. I found that it appears the motherboard I have set up does not support 'pass-thru' of my SAS controllers under ESXi and I appear to need that to run unRAID easily under ESXi, particularly with disks larger than 2TB. I have been thinking of having another go at getting unRAID working under ESXi using RDM for the disks instead of PassThru as ESXi would be a very desirable way to run unRAID, but have just not found the time.
It's been expensive, but money very well spent. I run naked unRAID, no plugins other than SF, so apart from stability of my valuable files and system as a whole, it's also pretty easy to update.

If you go for it, RDM is a pain and it kind of kills the easiness of having unRAID virtualized, but off course you need a vtd compatible MB.
I have an M1015 flashed to IT, and a RES2SV240 intel expander for a total of 24 drives running from a single PCI slot (only using 8 at the moment). A drive dies, or I need to expand my array, and it's a walk in the park.

Look in the unRAID forums, in you haven't done so already, for the Atlas thread by jonhm. Really useful stuff there. And I'm sure, if you are in this forum, you won't mind reading the whole thread
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I've read up all the stuff on ESXi for unRAID and have practical experience of ESXi in commercial environments. Although it would be nice to use ESXi for unRAID it is not really that important - certainly not enough to change my unRAID server (currently using 20 drives + cache)
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going back to my question, where can I check calibre logs to find out why it's crashing?
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