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Old 04-27-2011, 07:56 PM   #1
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calibre freezing
Let me preface this by saying that I wish I could have come up with a more specific title for this post, but I'm almost literally unable to do anything in Calibre.

I'm unable to do the following without my Calibre freezing: run welcome wizard, click on any button within the preferences, edit metadata or convert any files.

I've installed all Windows updates, done a system restore to remove them, uninstalled and reinstalled multiple versions of Calibre trying to fix it, but I'm just a novice and a lot of the suggestions on this board are honestly going over my head.

I'm running Windows 7, 64-bit and trying, at the very least, to convert files to .mobi.

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Old 04-27-2011, 07:57 PM   #2
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Are you using a wacom mouse? If so, try another mouse, there is an incompatibility with wacom mice and the graphics toolkit calibre uses.
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Old 04-27-2011, 07:59 PM   #3
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I'm unable to do the following without my Calibre freezing: run welcome wizard, click on any button within the preferences, edit metadata or convert any files.

Thanks in advance.
The same is happening to me as well. I converted some books yesterday with no problem, today - convert will not run.
Like blanket, I noticed that Windows did some updates to my computer also. I am running Win 7, 32 bit.
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Old 04-27-2011, 07:59 PM   #4
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Are you using a wacom mouse? If so, try another mouse, there is an incompatibility with wacom mice and the graphics toolkit calibre uses.
Not to sound stupid but is that a brand? wacom or are you referring to a wireless mouse?
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:01 PM   #5
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Wacom is a brand.
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:02 PM   #6
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@chilady1: you may have tried this already but in windows when weird things start happening the first thing I do is reboot my computer.
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Are you using a wacom mouse? If so, try another mouse, there is an incompatibility with wacom mice and the graphics toolkit calibre uses.
No, I'm using the trackpad on a Sony Vaio, but I did try a wireless mouse as well, to see if that would fix the issue, but it hasn't.

I wanted to mention as well that I disabled the antivirus, as that seemed to resolve the same issue with previous posters, but that didn't work for me either.
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Try running from a command prompt as

calibre-debug -g

and see if anything useful is printed out.
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:17 PM   #9
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Doesn't look like much to me, maybe you can make sense of it.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Sara>calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 0.978000164032
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont
'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont'

FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/GlobalMonospace.Co
mpositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont/.
.namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont/r
src'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/GlobalMonospace.Co
mpositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/GlobalMonospace.Compo
siteFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont
'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont'

FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/GlobalSansSerif.Co
mpositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont/.
.namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont/r
src'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/GlobalSansSerif.Co
mpositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/GlobalSansSerif.Compo
siteFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._GlobalSerif.CompositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%GlobalSerif.CompositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/GlobalSerif.Compos
iteFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalSerif.CompositeFont/..nam
edfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalSerif.CompositeFont/rsrc'

FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/GlobalSerif.Compos
iteFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/GlobalSerif.Composite
Font'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._GlobalUserInterface.Composite
Font'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%GlobalUserInterface.CompositeF
ont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/GlobalUserInterfac
e.CompositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFo
nt/..namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFo
nt/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/GlobalUserInterfac
e.CompositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/GlobalUserInterface.C
ompositeFont'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._StaticCache.dat'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%StaticCache.dat'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/StaticCache.dat'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/StaticCache.dat/..namedfork/rsr
c'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/StaticCache.dat/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/StaticCache.dat'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/StaticCache.dat'
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (171)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (177)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (174)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (174)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (191)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (206)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (177)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (188)
FT_Stream_EnterFrame: invalid read; expected 148 bytes, got 65
FT_Stream_ReadAt: invalid read; expected 128 bytes, got 65
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._desktop.ini'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%desktop.ini'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/desktop.ini'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/desktop.ini/..namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/desktop.ini/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/desktop.ini'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/desktop.ini'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/fms_metadata.xml/..namedfork/rs
rc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/fms_metadata.xml/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/fms_metadata.xml'
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:25 PM   #10
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@Kovid - thanks. The reboot did the trick. Everything working properly, thank you for the quick response.
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@blanket: You have a bunch of invalid files in your windows\fonts\ folder that are causing the problem. Clean them out and you should be fine. The filenames are all present in that debug output. Unfortunately it's been a long time since I used windows, so I dont remember the best way for cleaning out your font folder, but maybe someone else will be able to help you do that.
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This totally off topic but we just had someone named blanket reporting calibre is freezing and someone named chilady1 also posting. (Running and ducking!)
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This totally off topic but we just had someone named blanket reporting calibre is freezing and someone named chilady1 also posting. (Running and ducking!)
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Old 04-28-2011, 01:43 PM   #14
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This totally off topic but we just had someone named blanket reporting calibre is freezing and someone named chilady1 also posting. (Running and ducking!)
Lady F - that is hilarious and I didn't even catch that. Only a warped mind (just kidding) would pick that up. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.
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Lady F - that is hilarious and I didn't even catch that. Only a warped mind (just kidding) would pick that up. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.
Hey, I'll be the first to admit I'm warped, bent, whatever.
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