Comment 2 for bug 1291142

Damn you're fast!

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>wrote:

> Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is
> usually released every Friday.
>
> status fixreleased
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Fix Released
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1291142
>
> Title:
> Memory Error/ Failed to convert to opf for id:
>
> Status in calibre: e-book management:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Not sure if this is due to the large number of books, or an error
> processing a particular file. I uninstalled and re-installed, no
> difference. Calibre goes into an infinite loop, ramping up memory to
> about 2.8 GB, then dropping back down to about 300MB and trying again.
> The debug lists:
>
> calibre 1.27 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
> Linux-3.2.0-59-generic-pae-i686-with-debian-wheezy-sid Linux ('32bit',
> 'ELF')
> ('Linux', '3.2.0-59-generic-pae', '#90-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 7 23:07:06 UTC
> 2014')
> Python 2.7.5
> Linux: ('debian', 'wheezy/sid', '')
> Starting up...
> Failed to read metadata from font file:
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_Times.ttf tuple index out of
> range
> Failed to read metadata from font file:
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts/TSCu_Comic.ttf tuple index out of
> range
> Failed to convert to opf for id: 229273
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "site-packages/calibre/db/backup.py", line 92, in do_one
> File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/opf2.py", line 1539, in
> metadata_to_opf
> File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata/opf2.py", line 1526, in
> factory
> File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 1413, in lxml.etree._Element.makeelement
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:46060)
> File "apihelpers.pxi", line 123, in lxml.etree._makeElement
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:13860)
> File "apihelpers.pxi", line 111, in lxml.etree._makeElement
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:13732)
> File "apihelpers.pxi", line 264, in lxml.etree._initNodeAttributes
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:15399)
> File "apihelpers.pxi", line 1327, in lxml.etree._utf8
> (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:24596)
> MemoryError
> Failed to convert to opf for id: 229273
>
> This repeats over and over, about every 5 seconds.
> Running Ubuntu 12.04.
> I reported this once before, but didn't have the debug output. Just
> thought you might want to be aware of a potential infinite loop based on a
> memory request error. Or a memory request error due to a failure to
> convert, possibly. Good Luck, and thanks for the great program. I have 4
> GB on this machine, may upgrade to 8 to see if it gets past the memory
> error. Calibre reports 220280 books in the library, but the failure is on
> id 229273. The GUI is working, albeit very slowly. Some task is using
> 100% of one CPU for processing this.
> I uninstalled and reinstalled. Then ran Library Maintenance/Check
> Library. It vacuumed for quite a while, and then I had it clean up the
> stuff it said needed cleaning. Still no luck. Rescan finds no errors.
> Will probably work around by starting a new library and copying files
> into it. Will try rebuilding database first.
> Under debug it cycles between 2.3 and 2.6 GB on each retry.
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