[Old Thread] Conversion hangs at 100%

[bowsprit]

Using calibre 0.7.12 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit...

When doing most conversion to .mobi format, from html, or pdf, (maybe other formats) many conversion jobs will hang at 100% completion but not mark themselves finished.

Curiously, if I run another conversion job, usually the first, hanging one will complete, and the new one will hang.

Any ideas or further information needed?

[kovidgoyal]

Sounds like an IPC problem. Those are extremely painful to debug, but you may get some useful information by running calibre from a terminal as

calibre-debug -g

[samalex]

Originally Posted by bowsprit

Using calibre 0.7.12 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit...

When doing most conversion to .mobi format, from html, or pdf, (maybe other formats) many conversion jobs will hang at 100% completion but not mark themselves finished.

Curiously, if I run another conversion job, usually the first, hanging one will complete, and the new one will hang.

Any ideas or further information needed?

Actually I'm running into the same thing... running Calibre 0.7.12 on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. I've gotten a hand full of PDF and CHM documents to convert to MOBI, but most hang at about 47% or 67%. And the ones that do convert to MOBI load very slow in the MOBI viewer on Ubuntu (not sure if it's through Calibre or another app).

Most of my books are in PDF format, and I'm gaming that the Kindle 3 can handle PDF pretty well, but I'm testing converting some to MOBI.

I just started running into this a few hours ago, so I'll do some debugging per kovidgoyal's suggestion and post back if I find anything obvious.

Take care --

Sam

[bowsprit]

Restarting calibre solved my problem, though it does reappear occasionally. When it reappears, it occurs consistently until restart.

The debug output showed nothing interesting.

Samilex -- I thing your problem is different as mine hangs at 100% (for hours) without outputting a mobi, no matter how complicated the job, and finishes up as soon as another conversion job is started. Yours sounds more like a complicated parsing job.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by bowsprit

Samilex -- I thing your problem is different as mine hangs at 100% (for hours) without outputting a mobi, no matter how complicated the job, and finishes up as soon as another conversion job is started. Yours sounds more like a complicated parsing job.

People who jump in a thread and say

Actually I'm running into the same thing...

when obviously they are not experiencing the same thing bugs me more than any question asked on this forum.

Glad you found a way to recover from your troubles.

[Mellobob]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm having the same problems.

Running the newest calibre 0.8.7 on Ubuntu 11.04. It always seems to be same:

- bulk convert a number of books. In this latest case is was odt->mobi, but I don't think it matters.

- The last conversion hangs at 100%

- need to kill the process to stop

- Convert that single book doesn't work. Hangs again at 100%

- Restart calibre and try again. Now it works.

Hope this helps.

[paratwa]

Same problem here. I just bulk converted 900 files and it hung at the last one. I am using the latest version as of July 4th

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by paratwa

Same problem here. I just bulk converted 900 files and it hung at the last one. I am using the latest version as of July 4th

I know we should trust you but just for fun...

What version number of calibre are you using?
What OS are you running?

If using Linux

Are you using a repository version of calibre?
Are you installing via the binary install instructions on this page?

Have you restarted calibre (ctrl Q or ctrl R)?
Have you rebooted your computer?

If you haven't already, run calibre in debug mode drop down arrow next to preferences (ctrl-shift-r). Once in debug mode recreate the steps that cause the error (hopefully less then 100 conversions will work) and post the results.

Hopefully with this info someone can help explain what is going on.

The previous two users solved it by restarting calibre.

Originally Posted by bowsprit

Restarting calibre solved my problem, though it does reappear occasionally. When it reappears, it occurs consistently until restart.

Originally Posted by Mellobob

- Restart calibre and try again. Now it works.

Good Luck.