Ubuntu Headless, Windows 8.1 and database malformation (Cygwin?)

[Kouwezakkie]

Hi everybody!

I've recently taken to install Calibre on my headless Ubuntu LTS 14.04 in order to experiment with mobile content delivery. More mundanely (and quite probably more honestly ) phrased: I am too darned lazy to load 50 books on my Oppo Find 7 running Mantano Premium and I want to be able to download my locally-stored books on the go (when commuting to work or while on vacation). It's partly a storage problem, but then I would've been better off just forking over the cash for a larger microSD card.

So far it is working brilliantly! Mantano accepts my server as a content server, I can download the files, they get imported, I can read them -- there's always a 'but' --- but Calibre acts up when editing from my Windows 8.1 x64 box.

I just keep running into various smaller messages that seem to signify there are minor issues. For example (since last update):

==> Vlaag van verstand
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\delete.py", line 60, in delete_one
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 343, in delete_book
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 57, in call_func_with_lock
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1537, in remove_books
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1572, in remove_books
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 816, in executemany
  File "c:\cygwin64\home\kovid\sw\build\apsw-3.8.2-r1\src\cursor.c", line 231, in resetcursor
CorruptError: CorruptError: database disk image is malformed

Why is referring to Kovid's C: partition?

Or:

calibre, version 2.20.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>CorruptError</b>:CorruptError: database disk image is malformed

calibre 2.20  isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\delete.py", line 392, in delete_books
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\delete.py", line 366, in do_library_delete
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 362, in delete_books_by_id
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 57, in call_func_with_lock
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1537, in remove_books
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1572, in remove_books
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 816, in executemany
  File "c:\cygwin64\home\kovid\sw\build\apsw-3.8.2-r1\src\cursor.c", line 231, in resetcursor
CorruptError: CorruptError: database disk image is malformed

Sometimes I can re-edit and it works, sometimes a title change sticks anyway, and seems to ignore the error message altogether. Sometimes, even a restarted Calibre just throws the same error again first edit in.

Would you think this is a permissions issue (everything is 777'd locally), or is it something to do on the compilation side? Am I missing something?

[davidfor]

Running calibre with the library on a networked drive is not supported and results in these sort of errors. See I am getting errors with my calibre library on a networked drive/NAS?

[Kouwezakkie]

Thanks! Will have to work around that then.