Calibre crashing entire user session

henriquemaia · 05-31-2011, 04:44 PM

Hi, I've been using calibre for quite a while and it's of absolute importance for my research work (I'm a student).

Recently, however, calibre have been giving me the creeps because it crashes my entire user session. It happens randomly, with no recognizable pattern leading to that. There I am happily using calibre and, all of the sudden, the screen goes black on to tty and then gdm kicks for me to log in (I'm completely kicked out of my session).

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 and calibre 0.8.3.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Note: I have tried to start calibre in debug mode, but when it crashed, it left no trace behind.
addendum: I have tried some workaround that I found on google, but to no avail. This workaround consisted in selecting on ccsm > Utilty > Workarounds the workaround for qt windows

kovidgoyal · 05-31-2011, 04:48 PM

I'm guessing you are using one of the nvidia binary drivers, switch to using the nv or vesa driver.

henriquemaia · 06-01-2011, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I'm guessing you are using one of the nvidia binary drivers, switch to using the nv or vesa driver.

Thanks for your reply. No, I'm not using nvidia's drivers, because I'm using an intel card. I'm using calibre on a Asus Eee Pc (1000HE, for what it matters). I've considered turning off compiz to see if it makes it safer to use calibre. I'll report it later.

henriquemaia · 06-13-2011, 06:30 PM

I've tried with and without compiz and under compiz, Calibre is always crashing the user session. I've resigned myself to using my desktop without compiz, mostly because I need Calibre more (and compiz is a bit of resource hungry).

Without compiz, Calibre behaves properly.

05-31-2011, 04:44 PM	#1
henriquemaia Ignorant of many things Posts: 63 Karma: 9304 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Calibre crashing entire user session Hi, I've been using calibre for quite a while and it's of absolute importance for my research work (I'm a student). Recently, however, calibre have been giving me the creeps because it crashes my entire user session. It happens randomly, with no recognizable pattern leading to that. There I am happily using calibre and, all of the sudden, the screen goes black on to tty and then gdm kicks for me to log in (I'm completely kicked out of my session). I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 and calibre 0.8.3. Any ideas on how to solve this? Note: I have tried to start calibre in debug mode, but when it crashed, it left no trace behind. addendum: I have tried some workaround that I found on google, but to no avail. This workaround consisted in selecting on ccsm > Utilty > Workarounds the workaround for qt windows Last edited by henriquemaia; 05-31-2011 at 04:49 PM.

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05-31-2011, 04:48 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,201 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm guessing you are using one of the nvidia binary drivers, switch to using the nv or vesa driver.

06-13-2011, 06:30 PM	#4
henriquemaia Ignorant of many things Posts: 63 Karma: 9304 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kobo Libra 2	I've tried with and without compiz and under compiz, Calibre is always crashing the user session. I've resigned myself to using my desktop without compiz, mostly because I need Calibre more (and compiz is a bit of resource hungry). Without compiz, Calibre behaves properly.

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