[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 2037070] Re: [Enhancement] Treat semicolon as author name separator in calibre server

2023-10-01 Thread Kovid Goyal
I'm afraid calibre uses & only as separators. semi-colons can have other uses in author names so thats not going to change. ** Changed in: calibre Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1960822] Re: calibre bug 1960822

2022-02-14 Thread Kovid Goyal
calibre does not advertise handling for any ofthose file formats. I suggest you uninstall the distro based calibre and install the official binary from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux I have no idea what the ditro package does. The official binary advertises support for only the

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1944482] Re: calibre bug 1944482

2021-09-21 Thread Kovid Goyal
I do not provide support for people using distro provided packages. If you are using a distro provided package, uninstall it and install the official calibre binary from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux and if you can reproduce the bug with that, re-open the ticket. Of course, if you are

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1834641] Re: calibre bug 1834641

2021-02-16 Thread Kovid Goyal
definitely not calibre 3.39 uninstall the debian calibre and use the official binaries -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1834641 Title: Opening Kindle devices in

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1797890] Re: Enhancement-Kindle fire HD 8

2020-12-07 Thread Kovid Goyal
That error means your device is being opened by the desktop environmnet/file manager. Prevent it from being auto-mounted and you will be fine. On Linux, only one program can talk to an MTP based device at a time. ** Changed in: calibre Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1900366] Re: calibre bug 1900366

2020-10-18 Thread Kovid Goyal
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1898904 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1898904 The calibre package in Ubuntu is broken, please uninstall it and use the official calibre binaries from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux duplicate 1898904 -- You received this bug notification

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 655496] Re: calibre-parallel crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode()

2020-05-24 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655496 Title: calibre-parallel crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode() To manage notifications

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1619859] Re: calibre crashes on start

2020-05-24 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619859 Title: calibre crashes on start To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: calibre bug 1758548

2018-10-07 Thread Kovid Goyal
Because all of those utilities are editors, that work on one file at a time. Anyway, I dont really care whether you believe me or not. File systems are not atomic, that is a fact. Waving your hands and saying X, Y or Z magically work, just means that you have been lucky enough to avoid running

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: calibre bug 1758548

2018-10-07 Thread Kovid Goyal
filesystems have no concept of atomic operations. You cannot have multiple software accessing the same set of files at the same time and expect things to magically work. If you put your calibrelibrary on a NAS or a folder that is modified by other software, things *will* break.

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: calibre bug 1758548

2018-09-03 Thread Kovid Goyal
ext3 is fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758548 Title: Changing title or author to uppercase/lowercase causes book to disappear (French Language) To manage

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1758548] Re: Changing title or author to uppercase/lowercase causes book to disappear (French Language)

2018-09-01 Thread Kovid Goyal
The only way this can possibly happen is if the calibre library is on a broken filesystem such as a network share or a folder shared using a file sync service such as dropbox/gdrive/etc. Move your calibre library to a correctly functioning ext4 filesystem that is not modified by programs other

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1489179] Re: Upgraded to Windows 10 Calibre will not auto detect Kobo device

2015-10-14 Thread Kovid Goyal
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1506301 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506301 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1506301 Calibre Does Not See Kindle -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1456345] Re: calibre bug 1456345

2015-06-27 Thread Kovid Goyal
Your device is reporting it has no storage available. Simply reboot it and it should work again, if not you will need to reset it or contact amazon for a replacement. And no, this has nothing to do with calibre updates, if you disbelieve me, feel free to downgrade to the previous calibre version,

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1449608] Re: Cannot add new epubs to a library

2015-05-21 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1449608 Title: Cannot add new epubs to a library To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1426171] Re: Calibre content server crashes

2015-04-06 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1426171 Title: Calibre content server crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 543140] Re: Should list supported file open mimetypes in .desktop file

2015-03-23 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543140 Title: Should list supported file open mimetypes in .desktop file To manage notifications about

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1340179] Re: Calibre E-book Viewer has no icon

2014-08-08 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1340179 Title: Calibre E-book Viewer has no icon To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1296567] Re: FFe: Update calibre package to upstream version 1.29

2014-04-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296567 Title: FFe: Update calibre package to upstream version 1.29 To manage notifications about this

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1025042] Re: calibre send to Kindle: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.193 was not provided by any .service files

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1025042 Title: calibre send to Kindle: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1017053] Re: Font Variety Application

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017053 Title: Font Variety Application To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1027371] Re: calibre crashed with SIGSEGV in QTextEngine::itemize()

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027371 Title: calibre crashed with SIGSEGV in QTextEngine::itemize() To manage notifications about

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1015149] Re: calibre crashes on content server start when port is taken

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015149 Title: calibre crashes on content server start when port is taken To manage notifications about

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 1014307] Re: No cover when sending to device (Android 2.1)

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014307 Title: No cover when sending to device (Android 2.1) To manage notifications about this bug go

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 993652] Re: Calibre crashes on startup after upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993652 Title: Calibre crashes on startup after upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 To manage notifications

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 969939] Re: calibre-parallel crashed with ValueError in lxml.etree._utf8 (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:22060)(): All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes or co

2012-07-26 Thread Kovid Goyal
** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969939 Title: calibre-parallel crashed with ValueError in lxml.etree._utf8

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 937989] Re: Application needs hi-res or SVG icon

2012-05-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
** Branch unlinked: lp:calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937989 Title: Application needs hi-res or SVG icon To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 937989] Fixed in lp:calibre

2012-03-13 Thread Kovid Goyal
Fixed in branch lp:calibre. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday. status fixreleased ** Changed in: calibre Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 920357] Re: Missing support for Pocketbook 901/902/903 Pro

2012-01-23 Thread Kovid Goyal
Removed from calibre. If you want to open a bug against calibre, you need to install the official calibre binary, not the Ubuntu package and post the debug output from that. ** No longer affects: calibre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 920357] Re: Missing support for Pocketbook 901/902/903 Pro

2012-01-23 Thread Kovid Goyal
The pocketbook 602/901/902 and 903 share the same usb ids. Dont ask me why pocket book is stingy with usb ids. So they have the same driver in calibre. As for the main memory and card being swapped, calibre assumes that the drive with the lower disk number is the main memory. The PocketBook is

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: SUID Mount Helper has 5 Major Vulnerabilities

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
@halfdog: Indeed, a standalone, zero config library that allows unprivileged programs to securely mount and eject USB drives would be a blessing for several programs, not just calibre. I have learned a great deal in the process of fixing the issues brought up in this bug report and if it turns out

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: SUID Mount Helper has 5 Major Vulnerabilities

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
@evan: Certainly an install time question asking the user if they want to install the mount helper is an option. One that I can fallback to if we determine that the mount helper indeed cannot be made secure. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad,

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
@Josselin: Thanks for the suggestion. calibre already uses udisks when available. The problem is to find something that works on older systems and on BSD. If I were developing only for modern linux distros, I'd be quite happy to abandon the mount helper altogether in favor of udisks. As it is, I

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
HAL never worked perfectly on anything. That was the reason it was deprecated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software)#Deprecated Seriously, if you spent a moment glancing over the calibre feature list, or actually using it, you would know that it connects to ebook reader devices, devices

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
It's way past my bedtime, so I'd appreciate it if you could post the patch to mount-helper (by now you should be as familiar with the code as I am). If not, I'll get to it tomorrow. And thanks for the help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad,

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
@Jason: Well, if you do not wish to help, that leaves me with no choice but to remove the mount helper. I think it's a pity, for those people for whom device detection in calibre will stop working out of the box. But, I tried, to the best of my ability. I had hoped that we could work together to

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
@preston: Well, let me say that if I was the one that first showed attitude, I apologize. But you have to remember that I do *all* calibre bug triage (besides doing a large part of the developement). I get to deal with lots of bug reports from people, the vast majority of which are dubious at

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-04 Thread Kovid Goyal
As I have already said, in a previous response, I would be delighted if someone developed a zero config library that worked across linux distributions and BSDs to mount USB devices. What's needed is that it allow: 1) The mounting of any USB block device identified by device node to a

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-03 Thread Kovid Goyal
To summarize where we are now. The mount helper currently allows any user to: 1) Mount anything under /dev/ to a mountpoint under /media 2) Create empty directories anywhere if they can create symlinks in /media 3) Remove empty directories in /media This is pretty much the minimal set of

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-03 Thread Kovid Goyal
Code committed to check if the device node being mounted is a block device and exit if it is not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885027 Title: SUID Mount Helper has

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-02 Thread Kovid Goyal
Problems with pmount: 1) It does not work out of the box on all distros (it needs configuration) 2) It may not even be installed on some distros, for example, it isn't installed by default on gentoo. 3) It has been deprecated in favor of udisks (which incidentally calibre tries to use before

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 885027] Re: calibre bug 885027

2011-11-02 Thread Kovid Goyal
Ah, realpath() status fixreleased ** Changed in: calibre Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885027 Title: SUID Mount Helper

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 784407] Re: utf8 unicode decode error

2011-05-19 Thread Kovid Goyal
You need to post the full error message (click the show details button on the error dialog) ** Changed in: calibre Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in Ubuntu.

[Edubuntu-bugs] [Bug 319852] Re: TypeError: error_dialog() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

2011-03-20 Thread Kovid Goyal
** Changed in: calibre Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to calibre in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319852 Title: TypeError: error_dialog() takes exactly 3 arguments