Hi,
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 Jul 2017 at 11:27 UTC
> Guido Günther wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:22:47AM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 16 Jul 2017 at 09:05 UTC
> > > Guido Günther wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > control: affects -1 calibre
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Starts here without problems. Does
> > > >
> > > > python -c "from six.moves import _thread"
> > > >
> > > > work for you? If it does not work your python-six is broken. Maybe you
> > > > have a local version of six lying around?
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > -- Guido
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > python -c "from six.moves import _thread" does apparently nothing and
> > > exits with 0. Is this expected?
> > >
> >
> > Yept. That's how it should be.
> >
> > > The version of python-six on my system is 1.10.0-4 (current testing)
> > > and if it was broken I think calibre wouldn't start with only
> > > downgrading python-dateutil.
> >
> > It might because the old python-dateutil version might not have used it.
> > Can you do a
> >
> > strace -f -s2048 /usr/bin/calibre
> >
> > and attach this to the bugreport please.
> > Cheers,
> > -- Guido
>
> Of course. It's attached.
You have six.pyc in the calibre directory that's tripping up things:
open("/usr/lib/calibre/six.pyc", O_RDONLY) = 9
can you remove that and try again?
Cheers,
-- Guido
