control: reassign -1 calibre Hi, On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:33:53PM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote: > On Sunday, 16 Jul 2017 at 15:24 UTC > Guido Günther wrote: > > > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote: > > > On Sunday, 16 Jul 2017 at 11:27 UTC > > > Guido Günther wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:22:47AM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote: > > > > > On Sunday, 16 Jul 2017 at 09:05 UTC > > > > > Guido Günther wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > control: affects -1 calibre > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > Starts here without problems. Does > > > > > > > > > > > > python -c "from six.moves import _thread" > > > > > > > > > > > > work for you? If it does not work your python-six is broken. Maybe > > > > > > you > > > > > > have a local version of six lying around? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > -- Guido > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > python -c "from six.moves import _thread" does apparently nothing and > > > > > exits with 0. Is this expected? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yept. That's how it should be. > > > > > > > > > The version of python-six on my system is 1.10.0-4 (current testing) > > > > > and if it was broken I think calibre wouldn't start with only > > > > > downgrading python-dateutil. > > > > > > > > It might because the old python-dateutil version might not have used it. > > > > Can you do a > > > > > > > > strace -f -s2048 /usr/bin/calibre > > > > > > > > and attach this to the bugreport please. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- Guido > > > > > > Of course. It's attached. > > > > You have six.pyc in the calibre directory that's tripping up things: > > > > open("/usr/lib/calibre/six.pyc", O_RDONLY) = 9 > > > > can you remove that and try again? > > Cheers, > > -- Guido > > It works. After removing /usr/lib/calibre/six.pyc calibre works again. > So you are right, it's not a python-datetime bug.
So calibre should clean up *.pyc files (probably from ancient installations) in /usr/lib/calibre. Cheers, -- Guido