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Old 10-31-2009, 07:30 PM   #1
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Calibre launches in OSX Tiger then closes

Hi,

I have been using Calibre successfully on a Snow Leopard Mac and am very impressed by the work that's gone into it.

Yesterday I downloaded Calibre for my wife's slightly older iMac still running Tiger. It installs from the dmg okay, but when double-clicked, the bouncing icon appears on the dock, then just as quickly closes and disappears from the dock. No crash as such, it just won't stay launched. The Force Quit display window shows no Calibre process running.

Has anyone else experienced this?
Any thoughts?
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Old 10-31-2009, 11:05 PM   #2
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post the log from Console.app that will tell us what's wrong
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Old 11-01-2009, 06:22 AM   #3
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I can confirm the same problem on my Macbook Pro runnning Tiger. Here is the output from the log as requested.
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Usage: main.py [opts] [path_to_ebook]

Launch the main calibre Graphical User Interface and optionally add the ebook at
path_to_ebook to the database.


Whenever you pass arguments to main.py that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

main.py: error: no such option: -p
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Thanks for any suggestions.

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Old 11-01-2009, 07:02 AM   #4
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Same in Leopard

Yesterday I updated to version 6.20 and now it crashes. I tested in several Macs with several versions of OS (From Tiger to Snow Leopard) and its crashing in all of them

Unfortunately I trashed the previous version of Calibre so now I can't use it.

This is my syslog:

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Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 63, in <module>
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:     _run('main.py')
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 29, in _run
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:     execfile(path, globals(), globals())
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 1946, in <module>
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:     sys.exit(main())
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 1909, in main
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:     app, opts, args, actions = init_qt(args)
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 1828, in init_qt
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:     opts, args = parser.parse_args(args)
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "optparse.pyo", line 1380, in parse_args
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "calibre/utils/config.pyo", line 102, in error
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "optparse.pyo", line 1561, in error
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]:   File "optparse.pyo", line 1581, in print_usage
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 [0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 214: ordinal not in range(128)
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 calibre[369]: calibre Error
Nov  1 12:48:27 mbp-alberto-3 calibre[369]: calibre Error\nAn unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script\n\nUnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 214: ordinal not in range(128)
Nov  1 12:48:32 mbp-alberto-3 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[201] ([0x0-0x35035].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[369]): Exited with exit code: 255
When I launch calibre in a Mac in which calibre is running for the first time the output of syslog is different and also it does no create the Calibre preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/:

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Nov  1 13:20:43 mailbackup [0x0-0x15015].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[1224]: Usage: main.py [opts] [path_to_ebook]
Nov  1 13:20:43 mailbackup [0x0-0x15015].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[1224]: Launch the main calibre Graphical User Interface and optionally add the ebook at
Nov  1 13:20:43 mailbackup [0x0-0x15015].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[1224]: path_to_ebook to the database.
Nov  1 13:20:43 mailbackup [0x0-0x15015].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[1224]: Whenever you pass arguments to main.py that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.
Nov  1 13:20:43 mailbackup [0x0-0x15015].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[1224]: main.py: error: no such option: -p
Nov  1 13:20:43 mailbackup com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[213] ([0x0-0x15015].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[1224]): Exited with exit code: 2
Running from terminal, it launchs the graphical interface and everything seems to be OK:

mbp-alberto-3:log admin$ calibre --with-library ~/ebooks
Using library at /Users/admin/ebooks
link hasn't been detected!
link hasn't been detected!
Upgrading database to version 8...

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Old 11-01-2009, 11:06 AM   #5
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there was a bug in the calibre OS X build i uploaded a fixed build more than 24 hours ago. Just re-download and you should be fine (make sure you actually re-download and dont get a cached version)
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Old 11-01-2009, 05:23 PM   #6
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Thanks for your quick response. Works great now.
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:15 PM   #7
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Same here, many thanks, working perfectly!
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