Hello,
I'm not an expert at all for Linux and then Solus, so I'm kind of lost with that issue.
I have a Kindle Paperwhite, and I just install Calibre through Software Manager. It installed normally (so with libraries depedencies) and launched, but I can't convert an Ebook (EPUB format) to AZW3 format. It always failed (I tried different books). I had some books which were already in this format, and sending it to the Kindle worked normally.
I tested it with Windows, the conversion works good.
I tried converting it to another format (I tried MOBI), and it works (but this format can't convert to AZW3 neither).
This is the error I get :
"calibre, version 4.23.0 (linux, embedded-python: False)
Erreur lors de la conversion: Échoué: Conversion du livre 1 sur 1 (La voie magique)
Conversion du livre 1 sur 1 (La voie magique)
Conversion options changed from defaults:
dont_compress: True
verbose: 2
output_profile: 'kindle'
read_metadata_from_opf: '/tmp/calibre_4.23.0_tmp_2tla4r8m/5szfdkue.opf'
cover: '/tmp/calibre_4.23.0_tmp_2tla4r8m/nidlruwy.jpeg'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 4.23.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
'chapter': "//[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., "
"'\s((chapter|book|section|part)\s+)|((prolog|prologue|epilogue)(\s+|$))', "
"'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': '/tmp/calibre_4.23.0_tmp_2tla4r8m/nidlruwy.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': True,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': '',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x7f6844fe6d90>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x7f6844ff3a90>,
'page_breaks_before': '/',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': '/tmp/calibre_4.23.0_tmp_2tla4r8m/5szfdkue.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': '',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running
on /tmp/calibre_4.23.0_tmp_2tla4r8m/9czbl31z.epub
Found HTML cover titlepage.xhtml
Parsing all content...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_010.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_011.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_016.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing titlepage.xhtml ...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_003.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_002.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_004.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_005.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_006.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_012.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_013.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_014.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_001.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_000.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_015.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing stylesheet.css ...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_007.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_008.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Parsing Hobb_Robin-Assassin_Royal-05_La_voie_magiqueAssassin_s_Quest1997.French.ebook.AlexandriZ_split_009.htm ...
Found microsoft markup, cleaning...
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 11.99997pt
Removing fake margins...
Found 1 items of level: div_1
Found 28 items of level: p_2
Found 1 items of level: div_2
Found 2203 items of level: p_1
Found 14 items of level: p_3
Ignoring level p_3
div_1 left margin stats: Counter({'': 1})
div_1 right margin stats: Counter({'': 1})
p_2 left margin stats: Counter({'0': 28})
p_2 right margin stats: Counter({'0': 28})
div_2 left margin stats: Counter()
div_2 right margin stats: Counter()
p_1 left margin stats: Counter({'0': 2169, '2cm': 34})
p_1 right margin stats: Counter({'0': 2203})
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Trimming 'titlepage.xhtml' from manifest
Creating AZW3 Output...
Serializing resources...
Splitting markup on page breaks and flow limits, if any...
Creating KF8 output
Generating in-line ToC
Generating KF8 markup...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 20, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 209, in main
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 43, in gui_convert_override
override_input_metadata=True)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 28, in gui_convert
plumber.run()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1275, in run
self.opts, self.log)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py", line 330, in convert
kf8 = create_kf8_book(self.oeb, self.opts, resources, for_joint=False)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/main.py", line 497, in create_kf8_book
writer = KF8Writer(oeb, opts, resources)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/main.py", line 65, in init
self.chunk_it_up()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/main.py", line 328, in chunk_it_up
chunker = Chunker(self.oeb, self.data, placeholder_map)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py", line 188, in init
self.step_into_tag(body, chunks)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py", line 281, in step_into_tag
self.step_into_tag(child, chunks)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py", line 295, in step_into_tag
raise ValueError('Stepped into a tag that generated no chunks.')
ValueError: Stepped into a tag that generated no chunks."
Any idea about the cause of this error and how to fix it ?
I tried uninstall, reinstall, and upgrading.
Thank you, I hope I made this post properly.