Viewer crash on macOS when advancing to next chapter

[aphemos]

Hello,

Recently, I have been experiencing crashing with certain EPUBs. It usually happens as I am paging through a file, and at the end, upon advancing to the next chapter, a crash. It seems that with certain files, it happens consistently. Perhaps a sample EPUB later would help. Logs attached.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

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[aphemos (aphemos)]

Trying again on the most recent crash, I wasn't able to reproduce it. Though as you can see from the logs, before I had 3 or more crashes per day, then I would skip certain EPUBs to try to avoid it, unsure if it was those EPUBs. As a crash on macOS requires a reboot to get the viewer working again, it'd be nice to track down somehow.

Trying to find the old EPUB that might have caused it, I was unable. Is there any other way to debug this? Of what might cause it, I use flow mode. I also have a tendency when opening new EPUBs, to quickly in succession press the next page key to skip front matter to get to the intro chapter or so. From what I can remember, it tended to happen when I was quickly paging through chapters.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

It's a crash inside webengine, not in calibre code. Without a reproducer
tracking it is going to be impossible. If you are able to figure out how
to reproduce it, do update this bug report and I will take a look.

  status invalid

[aphemos (aphemos)]

The crash wouldn't be so bad if I didn't need single viewer instance and thus need a reboot with each crash. I saw a note about allowing address reuse. Perhaps that could avoid the address already in use issue?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Sorry not something I am interested in, but patches are welcome.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

oh and you dont need to reboot, just delete the socket file referenced
in the error message manually

[aphemos (aphemos)]

If such were possible, that'd be helpful. No file referenced. Error is:

ERROR: Failed to start viewer: [Errno 48] Address already in use

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/viewer/main.py", line 202, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/viewer/main.py", line 144, in ensure_single_instance
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/viewer/main.py", line 118, in create_listener
  File "lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 132, in __init__
  File "lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 256, in __init__
  File "lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 228, in meth
error: [Errno 48] Address already in use

I found a /Library/Caches/calibre-singleinstance-501-calibre_viewer.lock though that doesn't help.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

switch to the python 3 version of calibre, that should give you the path
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325721

Once you have the path, you can go back to using regular calibre, the
path will be the same.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

And looking at the code, it will be something like

/tmp/username-calibre-viewer.socket

[aphemos (aphemos)]

Thank you.

No luck with the python 3 version; error text is mostly the same:

calibre, version 4.99.5
ERROR: Failed to start viewer: [Errno 48] Address already in use

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 201, in main
  File "main.py", line 143, in ensure_single_instance
  File "main.py", line 117, in create_listener
  File "connection.py", line 448, in __init__
  File "connection.py", line 591, in __init__
OSError: [Errno 48] Address already in use

/tmp/ was one of the first places I looked yet no files as such or anything that suggests calibre.

[aphemos (aphemos)]

found it. $TMPDIR which in my case was /var/folders/10/6s777qrn0y1fqf3ysnc3qxt80000gn/T/

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I dont see how that's possible, look at socket_address() in
ipc/__init__.py

[aphemos (aphemos)]

perhaps gettempdir() uses $TMPDIR

[aphemos (aphemos)]

I assume the viewer can detect when it's loading a new EPUB or starting for the first time. Is there any harm in checking for the file and deleting it if necessary?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/5afae4c1a485bca5de6618d5f7f2ba1059d1e607