iMac : grey screen. cant see anything but it is there.

asllearner · 04-26-2018, 07:28 PM

I had a bit of crash on my iMac running 10.13.4 and did a bunch of diagnositics. I forced a shutdown of Calibre. Since that, when I open Calibre all I get is a grey screen. I get the tool tips that are corrects when I hover over the grey part, so "underneath" everything is there, but all the windows show only grey. I ran debug mode, and all was fine, and here is the debug output.

Spoiler:

kovidgoyal · 04-26-2018, 10:48 PM

Try:

1) Reboot your computer
2) Run calibre without plugins (in a terminal)

Code:

/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre --ignore-plugins

3) Run calibre with a fresh config (in a terminal)

Code:

CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=/tmp/c /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre

asllearner · 04-27-2018, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Try:

1) Reboot your computer
2) Run calibre without plugins (in a terminal)

Code:

/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre --ignore-plugins

This briefly showed the plain screen then became grey.

Quote:

3) Run calibre with a fresh config (in a terminal)

Code:

CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=/tmp/c /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre

this breifly showed teh setup dialogue in grey, and prompted ot open library, but it came out grey.

Worse than before: I restarted in debug mode after the last...It showed briefly, then went grey too, but here is the log

Spoiler:

asllearner · 04-27-2018, 01:07 AM

Ebookviewer also gone grey.

kovidgoyal · 04-27-2018, 05:21 AM

In that case I dont think it is anything in calibre, seems like the problem is lower down in the system. The only other suggestion I have is to disconnect your Kyocera device which calibre is trying to connect to.

asllearner · 04-27-2018, 09:58 AM

It seems like it may have something to do with mySIMBL. I remembered I had recently changed some settings in it before the problem started--I disabled one of the bundles and now Calibre works okay.

04-26-2018, 07:28 PM	#1
asllearner Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 37422 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	iMac : grey screen. cant see anything but it is there. I had a bit of crash on my iMac running 10.13.4 and did a bunch of diagnositics. I forced a shutdown of Calibre. Since that, when I open Calibre all I get is a grey screen. I get the tool tips that are corrects when I hover over the grey part, so "underneath" everything is there, but all the windows show only grey. I ran debug mode, and all was fine, and here is the debug output. Spoiler: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile EpubMerge: DEBUG: 2018-04-27 08:20:59,339: calibre_plugins.epubmerge.epubmerge_plugin(152): macmenuhack file_path:/Users/donnodd/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile calibre Debug log calibre 3.22.1 embedded-python: True is64bit: True Darwin-17.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '') ('Darwin', '17.5.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 17.5.0: Mon Mar 5 22:24:32 PST 2018; root:xnu-4570.51.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64') Python 2.7.12 OSX: ('10.13.4', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64') Interface language: None DEBUG: 0.0 GetFileName::__init__.py - loading translations DEBUG: 0.0 GetFileName::__init__.py - loading translations Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 6, 0) && Clean Metadata (0, 0, 6) && View Manager (1, 4, 3) && EpubSplit (2, 4, 0) && Annotations (1, 7, 0) && Webscription (1, 1, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 0, 4) && EpubCheck (0, 1, 2) && Amazon.com Multiple Countries (1, 0, 0) && Manage Series (1, 2, 8) && Find Duplicates (1, 6, 3) && Consolidate All Library Metadata (2, 0, 32) && Quick Preferences (1, 4, 1) && Copy Cover To Device (2, 0, 0) && Generate Cover (1, 5, 21) && Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 15) && Extract ISBN (1, 4, 4) && Walk Search History (1, 3, 1) && djvumaker (1, 0, 2) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 3, 5) && User Category (1, 5, 3) && MultiColumnSearch (1, 0, 74) && EpubMerge (2, 2, 0) && Job Spy (1, 0, 113) && GetFileName (0, 0, 12) && Goodreads (1, 1, 14) && Prettify Cover 0.9.12 && Resize Cover (1, 0, 2) && Open With (1, 5, 10) && KePub Metadata Reader (3, 0, 2) && Import List (1, 3, 0) && Library Splitter (1, 0, 0) && Save Composite Custom Columns (1, 1, 0) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && Search The Internet (1, 7, 6) && Library Codes (1, 0, 30) calibre 3.22.1 embedded-python: True is64bit: True Darwin-17.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '') ('Darwin', '17.5.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 17.5.0: Mon Mar 5 22:24:32 PST 2018; root:xnu-4570.51.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64') Python 2.7.12 OSX: ('10.13.4', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64') Interface language: None Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 6, 0) && Clean Metadata (0, 0, 6) && View Manager (1, 4, 3) && EpubSplit (2, 4, 0) && Annotations (1, 7, 0) && Webscription (1, 1, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 0, 4) && EpubCheck (0, 1, 2) && Amazon.com Multiple Countries (1, 0, 0) && Manage Series (1, 2, 8) && Find Duplicates (1, 6, 3) && Consolidate All Library Metadata (2, 0, 32) && Quick Preferences (1, 4, 1) && Copy Cover To Device (2, 0, 0) && Generate Cover (1, 5, 21) && Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 15) && Extract ISBN (1, 4, 4) && Walk Search History (1, 3, 1) && djvumaker (1, 0, 2) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 3, 5) && User Category (1, 5, 3) && MultiColumnSearch (1, 0, 74) && EpubMerge (2, 2, 0) && Job Spy (1, 0, 113) && GetFileName (0, 0, 12) && Goodreads (1, 1, 14) && Prettify Cover 0.9.12 && Resize Cover (1, 0, 2) && Open With (1, 5, 10) && KePub Metadata Reader (3, 0, 2) && Import List (1, 3, 0) && Library Splitter (1, 0, 0) && Save Composite Custom Columns (1, 1, 0) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && Search The Internet (1, 7, 6) && Library Codes (1, 0, 30) devicePixelRatio: 1.0 logicalDpi: 72.0 x 72.0 physicalDpi: 109.000001637 x 109.000001637 Using calibre Qt style: True [0.00] Starting up... [0.02] Initializing db... [0.84] db initialized [0.84] Constructing main UI... DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations plugin: Error loading libiMobileDevice. This hasn't worked for a while, and is blacklisted in calibre v3. DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations plugin: Error is: No module named idevice.libimobiledevice DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations::reader_app_support.py - loading translations DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations::common_utils.py - loading translations DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations::appearance.py - loading translations DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations::config.py - loading translations DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations::annotated_books.py - loading translations DEBUG: 0.0 Annotations::action.py - loading translations MCS has finished initialization... Job Spy has begun initialization... Calibre, and hence Job Spy, was gracefully shut down last time? True Last time daemon started: never Last time daemon failed: never Total daemon starts inception_to_date: 0 Total daemon failures inception-to-date: 0 Job Spy has finished initialization... [8.83] main UI initialized... [8.83] Started up in 8.83 seconds with 11533 books libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile 2018-04-27 08:22:27.592 Calibre[634:13220] deliverNotificationWithTitle() 2018-04-27 08:22:27.666 Calibre[634:13220] OS X 10.13, zestyWin loaded... * Notification delivered. Last edited by theducks; 04-26-2018 at 08:08 PM. Reason: wrap log in spoiler

04-26-2018, 10:48 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,598 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Try: 1) Reboot your computer 2) Run calibre without plugins (in a terminal) Code: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre --ignore-plugins 3) Run calibre with a fresh config (in a terminal) Code: CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=/tmp/c /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre

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04-27-2018, 01:07 AM	#4
asllearner Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 37422 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Ebookviewer also gone grey.

04-27-2018, 05:21 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,598 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	In that case I dont think it is anything in calibre, seems like the problem is lower down in the system. The only other suggestion I have is to disconnect your Kyocera device which calibre is trying to connect to.

04-27-2018, 09:58 AM	#6
asllearner Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 37422 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	It seems like it may have something to do with mySIMBL. I remembered I had recently changed some settings in it before the problem started--I disabled one of the bundles and now Calibre works okay.

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