Public bug reported: When trying to start calibre with no arguments, the following exception is thrown before the GUI can appear:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 19, in <module> from calibre.gui_launch import calibre File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/__init__.py", line 28, in <module> from calibre.startup import winutil, winutilerror File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/startup.py", line 93, in <module> set_translators() File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/localization.py", line 209, in set_translators mpath = get_lc_messages_path(lang) File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/localization.py", line 108, in get_lc_messages_path if lang in available_translations(): File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/localization.py", line 22, in available_translations stats = msgpack_loads(open(stats, 'rb').read()) File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/serialize.py", line 109, in msgpack_loads return msgpack.unpackb(dump, ext_hook=msgpack_decoder, raw=False) File "msgpack/_unpacker.pyx", line 100, in msgpack._unpacker.unpackb (msgpack/_unpacker.cpp:1777) TypeError: unpackb() got an unexpected keyword argument 'raw' /usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ptempfile.py:29: RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'calibre' not found while handling absolute import import shutil ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: calibre 3.39.1+dfsg-2build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-23.24-generic 5.0.15 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Aug 4 01:57:08 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-27 (1863 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_IE:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh SourcePackage: calibre UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-21 (104 days ago) ** Affects: calibre (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug disco -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838862 Title: calibre crashes during startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calibre/+bug/1838862/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs