Failing to convert to mobi

[ImConfused]

Xubuntu 11.04. Calibre is unable to dependably convert epub to mobi. Calibre (Windows XP version same computer different OS) was able to convert the very same documents. The following is what I got at the end of a failed conversion. It also happened in pdf to mobi.

Trimming 'cover1.jpeg' from manifest
Trimming 'titlepage.xhtml' from manifest
Processed HTML written to: /home/edward/Calibre Library/processed
Creating MOBI Output...
Generating in-line TOC...
Applying case-transforming CSS...

Parsing manglecase.css ...

Parsing tocstyle.css ...

Rasterizing SVG images...

Converting XHTML to Mobipocket markup...

Serializing images...

Serializing markup content...

  Compressing markup content...

Generating MOBI index for a book
TOC item Start [titlepage.xhtml] not found in document
Failed to generate MOBI index:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer2/main.py", line 114, in generate_index
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer2/indexer.py", line 508, in __init__
ValueError: No valid entries in TOC, cannot generate index

MOBI output written to /tmp/calibre_0.8.27_tmp_P9mCxj/nJDcAX.mobi

ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 21716, errno = 32

I upgraded to the latest Calibre (0.8.27) on the Calibre website using the bin which had all the dependencies. Again the same problem arose. I tried another PDF file and attempted to convert it to Mobi. It failed when the html file was being converted to mobi. Under Windows XP Calibre did convert however. It seems that Calibre converts to html before it converts to another format.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

As it affects upstream version too, changing to calibre app.

Thanks,
Fabrice

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147431