PCLinuxOS and Kindle

[krikket]

Unfortunately, I don't remember which version of Calibre stopped recognizing my Kindle, but it was a while back. (Maybe 6 months ago...) I'm running PCLinuxOS and haven't worried about it, since I haven't been trying to send more than a handful of books at a time via emailing via Amazon. Now I have 500+ books to send to my Kindle, and I have no idea how to proceed. At least without Amazon charging me. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Krikket

[theducks]

All I can say is that the K4 worked with Calibre 8.44 (my last time USB connection) and Ubuntu Natty (32 bit)

[PeterT]

I wonder if this fix was what broke it for you?

Release: 0.8.25 [06 Nov, 2011]

• Remove the suid mount helper used on linux and bsd, as it proved impossible to make it secure.
  
  Closes tickets: 885027
  
  This means that if you are on BSD or an older linux distribution, without support for udisks, device detection will no longer work in calibre. You will have to either mount the devices by hand before starting calibre, or stick with version 0.8.24 (the vulnerability in the mount helper is a privilege escalation, which is relatively harmless on the vast majority of single user systems).

[krikket]

The info from the debug screen in misc:

Version: 0.8.46
USB devices on system:
[['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs ohci_hcd',
'OHCI Host Controller',
'0000:02:00.0'],
['0x5ac',
'0x1294',
'0x1',
'Apple Inc.',
'iPhone',
'3b1c4c5808c16f3b5d24db3f594670778773c1f7'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.3'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.7'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x2',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs ehci_hcd',
'EHCI Host Controller',
'0000:02:00.3'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.2'],
['0x1949', '0x4', '0x100', 'Amazon', 'Amazon Kindle', 'B008A0A004545C44'],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.1'],
['0x3f0',
'0x6d11',
'0x100',
'HP',
'Photosmart D5400 series',
'MY85R570PF04V3'],
['0x50d', '0x234', '0x100', '', '', ''],
['0x1d6b',
'0x1',
'0x206',
'Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs uhci_hcd',
'UHCI Host Controller',
'0000:00:1d.0']]
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COBY COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52
E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK EX124G
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA JETBOOK
JETBOOK_COLOR JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KINDLE_FIRE KOBO
LIBREAIR LUMIREAD MENTOR MOOVYBOOK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK
NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ODYSSEY ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PI2 PICO
PLAYBOOK POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602
POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 PRST1 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS SPECTRA
STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED
VELOCITYMICRO WEBOS WEXLER

Looking for devices...
(6473, 4, 256, 'Amazon', 'Amazon Kindle', 'B008A0A004545C44')
Detected possible device KINDLE2

Devices possibly connected: Kindle 2/3/4/Touch Device Interface,
Trying to open Kindle 2/3/4/Touch Device Interface ... Udisks mount call failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 597, in do_mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 60, in mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 28, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
File "site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
File "site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files
Udisks mount call failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 597, in do_mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 60, in mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 28, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
File "site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
File "site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files
Udisks mount call failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 597, in do_mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 60, in mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 28, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
File "site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
File "site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files
Udisks mount call failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 597, in do_mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 60, in mount
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/udisks.py", line 28, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
File "site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
File "site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files
failed
Opening of the following devices failed
<calibre.devices.kindle.driver.KINDLE2 object at 0x8e98d8c>
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 860, in open
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 621, in open_linux
DeviceError: Unable to mount main memory (Error code: 1)

[itimpi]

That log shows that your system does not have support for uDisks, so the Calibre automatic detection does not work correctly. As the change note indicated you need to manually mount the Kindle For Calibre to be able to work with it.

[krikket]

Thank you! That did the trick.