calibre display trahed in Ubuntu 16.04

[Robert Wohlhueter]

Recent upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 (from 14.04) on AMD64, with Ubuntu-Studio
Graphics card = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660Ti, with driver 367.67, and dual monitors
Just updated to calibre 2.72.0 (but problem occurred with previous version (?) of calibre, which was working under Ubuntu 14.04.

Problem: calibre starts, with all items shown, but with absurdly wide display width -- at least 10 or 12 screen widths. Vertical size of display is normal. Nor can I grab the side of the display window, and bring it back to normal width.

Following advice under bug #1562291, I've tried completely removing calibre installation and ~/.config/calibre -- to no avail: fresh installation behaves same way.

Problem seems clearly to have to do with X-display settings or NVIDIA driver; calibre 2.72 under Ubuntu 16.04 on another machine with generic VGA works fine.

I've been systematically checking out all my applications since upgrading to 16.04, and this is, so far, the only one with such a malfunction.

[Robert Wohlhueter (bobwohlhueter)]

My statement that calibre 2.72 works okay under Ubuntu 16.04 on a machine with generic VGA graphics is WRONG! (I mixed up version numbers.) In fact, the behavior is like that described above on a machine using the NVIDIA graphics card.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Robert,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Calibre. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu and Calibre have been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and, in the current version, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 1643023
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Calibre better.
G

[Robert Wohlhueter (bobwohlhueter)]

My Calibre (under Ubuntu) is behaviong perfectly well. now.

Since reporting the bug, I upgraded fro Ubuntu 16 to 17, which involves
replacing lots of shared libs.  Thus, I can't discern what, in
particular, "did the trick".

Thank you,

Roert Wohlhueter

On 7/29/18 4:11 PM, gf wrote:
> Hello Robert,
> Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Calibre. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu and Calibre have been updated since then.
>
> Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
> If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
> If you are, could you let us know and, in the current version, could you run the following (only once):
> apport-collect 1643023
> and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.
>
> Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Calibre better.
> G
>
> ** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, Robert. I will close the ticket now.
:)
G

Closed per reporter's feedback.