Can't see Kobo in Ubuntu using Calibre 0.7.32

[BartB]

Have been using Calibre since I got my Kobo in May earlier this year and have enjoyed the experience so much I donated some money :-)

I upgraded not long after from 0.7.31 to 0.7 32 and now cannot see Kobo in Calibre. I can see it on the desktop as a usb drive but that is locked up as a read only device.

Any ideas what might be the problem and what I need to do to fix?

Bart

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by BartB

I upgraded not long after from 0.7.31 to 0.7 32 and now cannot see Kobo in Calibre. I can see it on the desktop as a usb drive but that is locked up as a read only device.

You must have upgraded when 0.7.32 first came out a week ago. This problem was corrected the next day with a fresh corrected build of 0.7.32 being uploaded to the server.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Fixed build uploaded, just re-run the install command.

At this point you can reinstall 0.7.32 or wait and install 0.7.33 when it comes out shortly.

[BartB]

Tried that. Twice. Same result. I guess I'll have to wait till the new version comes out.

BTW. I reloaded 31 onto my Win machine at work and it see Kobo ok.

Bart

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by BartB

Tried that. Twice. Same result. I guess I'll have to wait till the new version comes out.

Most likely easiest to wait. You must some how be caching the old version. If history is any indicator the new version will be released shortly.

[BartB]

Did the upgrade. Same result. Not seen in Calibre, seen under Ubuntu where I can only read Kobo not write. Then I had an idea.

My wife has a Kobo (the later version) and I can see it in Calibre as well as under Ubuntu with full privileges (my machine and hers). This is leading me to think that somehow I have changed read/write privileges on mu Kobo as I also get a Linux error message when I try to disconnect gracefully via Linux. I do not have this problem under windows so that is my fall back (reluctantly).

I now need to go learn about how to change that under Linux. Any ideas where I should start? :-).

Bart

[itimpi]

You should run the device detection debug and post the output here to see if we can spot the problem.

Just to check the obvious - I assume that you have the Kobo plugin enabled?

[BartB]

Did as you suggested and here is the output. The last line is telling - it is as I thought, the device is read only. Any pointer to where I can get info to learn to change this?



Version: 0.7.33
USB devices on system:
[['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.35-23-generic ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.7'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.35-23-generic uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.3'],
['0xb05', '0x1712', '0x1915', '', '', '0194E8-5B-0002'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.35-23-generic uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.0'],
['0x2237', '0x4161', '0x110', 'Kobo Inc.', 'KOBOeReader', 'KBN41604B04797'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.35-23-generic uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.1'],
['0x5e1',
'0x501',
'0x5',
'Syntek Semiconductor',
'USB 2.0 Image Capture Controller',
''],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.35-23-generic uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.2'],
['0x46d', '0xc408', '0x1400', 'Logitech', 'USB Trackball', '']]
Available plugins: ALEX ANDROID AVANT AZBOOKA BLACKBERRY BOOQ BOOX COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK
E52 E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE ELONEX ESLICK
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KOBO KOGAN LUMIREAD MENTOR N516
N770 N810 NEWSMY NOOK NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL
PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK602 PRS505
Q600 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS SPECTRA SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK
VELOCITYMICRO

Looking for devices...
(8759, 16737, 272, 'Kobo Inc.', 'KOBOeReader', 'KBN41604B04797')
Detected possible device KOBO

Devices possibly connected: Kobo Reader Device Interface,
Trying to open Kobo Reader Device Interface ... failed
Opening of the following devices failed
<calibre.devices.kobo.driver.KOBO object at 0x8fd4eec>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/__init__.py", line 124, in debug
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 685, in open
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 633, in open_linux
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 669, in filter_read_only_mount_points
DeviceError: The main memory of KOBO is read only. This usually happens because of file system errors.

[BartB]

Fixed it. Used dmesg to have a look at 'stuff' with the view to finding out why I could only read the device. Lo and behold there was a line saying that the fat32 was 'broken'. Started to look for Linux solution then thought to use my little netbook (Win XP) and do a chkdsk fix. This fixed the error and when I connected to my Ubuntu machine Calibre found the Kobo.

All is right with the world again :-)

Thanks to all for your suggestions.

[kovidgoyal]

See http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...-connect-to-it