Suddenly stopped working

[Mr. mister]

I didn't install any updates or anything but when I got on today Calibre didn't work. I run Linuxmint 11

when I try to start from terminal I get this.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 19, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 362, in main
    app, opts, args, actions = init_qt(args)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 43, in init_qt
    from calibre.gui2.ui import Main
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 30, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.widgets import ProgressIndicator
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/widgets.py", line 26, in <module>
    history = XMLConfig('history')
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/config.py", line 579, in __init__
    self.refresh()
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/config.py", line 590, in refresh
    with ExclusiveFile(self.file_path) as f:
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/lock.py", line 113, in __enter__
    self.file  =  WindowsExclFile(self.path, self.timeout) if iswindows else open(self.path, 'a+b')
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/home/jesse/.config/calibre/history.plist'

Also when I run as root it works... but I'd rather not have to make my library in root and take the trouble to run it like that every time I want to use the program.

Help?

[jgaiser]

Permissions? Owner? What does 'ls -l' of /home/jesse/.config/calibre show?

[Mr. mister]

I'm the owner. First thing I checked because I had the same problem with Sigil when I first installed it a few days ago. I've also already tried complete uninstall and reinstall from package manager and the binary installation from the Calibre site

ls -l gives me this

total 116
drwxr-xr-x 2 jesse jesse 4096 2011-07-06 23:53 conversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 539 2011-07-10 16:04 dynamic.pickle
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 2051 2011-07-10 16:04 global.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 2583 2011-07-10 16:04 gui.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 4817 2011-07-10 16:04 gui.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 0 2011-07-10 16:04 history.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 609 2011-07-07 23:50 iterator.pickle
drwx------ 2 jesse jesse 4096 2011-07-10 18:15 metadata_sources
drwx------ 2 jesse jesse 4096 2011-05-26 22:19 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 470 2011-05-26 22:26 smtp.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 jesse jesse 17312 2011-05-26 22:19 tweaks.py

[theducks]

do those PY files need have the x flag set?

[Mr. mister]

@theducks I don't know but I set them all to executable and Calibre still won't start (changed them back)

[jgaiser]

Interesting... Basically matches my directory listing and my .py files are not executable. Curiouser and curiouser...

[Mr. mister]

Ya it's really strange... could it be the history file? that's where the error was in the terminal.

IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/home/jesse/.config/calibre/history.plist'

it also gives me an input/output error when I try to change the properties on that file.

Edit: Does it pull from the same directory when using as root? because like it said it'll open as administrator

[jgaiser]

Hmm...?? Your listing shows a 'zero' size for the file. Can you remove it? As root?

Doesn't seem to be required. Just moved mine out of the directory and Calibre starts up just fine.

[Mr. mister]

Yay! It works now. So happy I don't even mind thinking feeling like an idiot for not thinking of that in the first place.
Thanks man!