Preferences loop on Mac OS X

dumas2 · 05-01-2009, 03:43 PM

Mac OS X 10.5.6 (intel)
calibre 0.5.9

Start calibre, click Preferences, CPU goes to 100% and calibre stops responding. Activity monitor shows most of the CPU is from syslogd.

Running calibre -v from the command line and repeating, I see calibre printing this as fast as it can go:

Qt: internal: -108: Error ATSUMeasureTextImage text/qfontengine_mac.cpp: 556
Qt: internal: -108: Error ATSUMeasureTextImage text/qfontengine_mac.cpp: 556

over and over... until I kill calibre.

Does this point to the problem? Anything I can do to gather more information to figure it out?

kovidgoyal · 05-01-2009, 03:58 PM

looks like a problem with one of the fonts on your machine. Do you have some unusual fonts installed?

dumas2 · 05-01-2009, 04:19 PM

Just Bitstream Vera, which I wouldn't think was all that unusual. But after moving those files aside and logging out and back in, I can now bring up calibre preferences.

Would it be possible to fix this?

kovidgoyal · 05-01-2009, 04:22 PM

As far as I can see, it's a bug in the Qt GUI library, which is not under my control. You should open a bug report on the Qt bug tracker.

05-01-2009, 03:43 PM	#1
dumas2 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: T-Mobile G1	Preferences loop on Mac OS X Mac OS X 10.5.6 (intel) calibre 0.5.9 Start calibre, click Preferences, CPU goes to 100% and calibre stops responding. Activity monitor shows most of the CPU is from syslogd. Running calibre -v from the command line and repeating, I see calibre printing this as fast as it can go: Qt: internal: -108: Error ATSUMeasureTextImage text/qfontengine_mac.cpp: 556 Qt: internal: -108: Error ATSUMeasureTextImage text/qfontengine_mac.cpp: 556 over and over... until I kill calibre. Does this point to the problem? Anything I can do to gather more information to figure it out?

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05-01-2009, 03:58 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,164 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	looks like a problem with one of the fonts on your machine. Do you have some unusual fonts installed?

05-01-2009, 04:19 PM	#3
dumas2 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: T-Mobile G1	Just Bitstream Vera, which I wouldn't think was all that unusual. But after moving those files aside and logging out and back in, I can now bring up calibre preferences. Would it be possible to fix this?

05-01-2009, 04:22 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,164 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	As far as I can see, it's a bug in the Qt GUI library, which is not under my control. You should open a bug report on the Qt bug tracker.

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