Ubuntu
calibre package

calibre crashes on start

Bug #1619859 reported by roberto
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
calibre (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

after upgrading to Calibre 2.66 on ubuntu server the application crushes on startup with the following message
sh-4.3 $ Calibre
QXcbConnection: Failed to initialize XRandR
Qt: XKEYBOARD extension not present on the X server.
The X11 connection broke: Maximum allowed requested length exceeded (code 4)
XIO: fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server ": 20.0"
       after 192 requests (192 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
sh-4.3 $
all previous versions worked for years

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in calibre (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Robert Schmidt-Cisternas (robert-w) wrote :

See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278447 for a workaround.

Basically, calibre tries to load an icon which silently fails somewhere in the stack, because of its size.
Replacing it with a smaller PNG allows calibre to start normally.

The XRandR and XKEYBOARD extension error messages are red herrings (they still appear with the workaround applied).

Kovid Goyal (kovid)
no longer affects: calibre
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