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hb860

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Calibre 2.15 does not start

Guys, I got an issue with Calibre 2.15 arrived today from pacman -Syu
After I start it, calibre only shows the splash screen, and says:

segmentation fault (core dumped)

I tried the following:

• downgraded Calibre (checked all available versions in /var/cache/pacman/pkg)

• downgraded python2-pyqt5

• re-installed Calibre

• removed ~/.config/calibre and ~/Calibre's Library

Does not help...
As a temporary solution, I installed that "official" version as suggested at the developer's site via wget, and it works. But the one from Arch's repo does not.
Any suggestion? Is it packaging issue?

Trilby

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Re: Calibre 2.15 does not start

I just installed it (had to install 48 packages total) and it worked fine here.

Can you post (or link to) an strace output?

EDIT: did you also remove ~/.cache/calibre?

Last edited by Trilby (2015-01-07 22:10:49)

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hb860

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Re: Calibre 2.15 does not start

Thank you very much, Trilby
After running the strace utility, I found out that calibre crashes while it reads the ~/.config/ImageMagiK profile.
I deleted that folder and it helped. Now it works being installed using pacman.
Probably the issue was caused by the updated ImageMagik package or something damaged its profile.

Last edited by hb860 (2015-01-07 23:07:17)