{"id":130,"date":"2015-03-10T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alltechbusiness.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-03-10T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:49:25","slug":"calibre-crashed-with-ioerror-errno-5-inputoutput-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/calibre-crashed-with-ioerror-errno-5-inputoutput-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Calibre Crashed with IOError: Errno 5 input\/output error"},"content":{"rendered":"

I run Calibre on Kubuntu to manage my ebooks.
\nCalibre stopped working one day and crashed with this message<\/p>\n

Traceback (most recent call last):
\n File \"site.py\", line 61, in main
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/__init__.py\", line 21, in
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/startup.py\", line 77, in
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/localization.py\", line 129, in set_translators
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/localization.py\", line 63, in get_lang
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py\", line 446, in
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py\", line 354, in __getitem__
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py\", line 364, in get
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py\", line 348, in refresh
\n File \"site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py\", line 277, in parse
\nIOError: [Errno 5] Input\/output error
\n\/opt\/calibre\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/calibre\/ptempfile.py:27: RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'calibre' not found while handling absolute import<\/code><\/p>\n

Hunted high an low to find the problem, re-installed, updated, upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10, still getting same error.<\/p>\n

Finally ran an strace on calibre<\/p>\n

strace -o .\/logfile \/opt\/calibre\/calibre <\/code><\/p>\n

and found this<\/p>\n

open(\"\/home\/user\/.config\/calibre\/global.py\", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_CLOEXEC, 0644) = 7
\nfstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3498, ...}) = 0
\nfcntl(7, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
\nfstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3498, ...}) = 0
\nmmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fc610952000
\nlseek(7, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
\nlseek(7, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
\nflock(7, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB) = 0
\nfstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3498, ...}) = 0
\nlseek(7, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
\nread(7, 0x7fc610952000, 4096) = -1 EIO (Input\/output error)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Tried to open .config\/calibre\/global.py and sure enough, it was toast. Deleted global.py and restarted Calibre and everything is working. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I run Calibre on Kubuntu to manage my ebooks. Calibre stopped working one day and crashed with this message Traceback (most recent call last): File “site.py”, line 61, in main File “site-packages\/calibre\/__init__.py”, line 21, in File “site-packages\/calibre\/startup.py”, line 77, in File “site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/localization.py”, line 129, in set_translators File “site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/localization.py”, line 63, in get_lang File “site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py”, line 446, in File “site-packages\/calibre\/utils\/config_base.py”, line…<\/p>\n

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