Unable to Access Editor (Edit Book)

[Inkwise]

Hello,

I am using Calibre to set up some ebooks for classic literature in the public domain. I was adding some images to an ebook I created the other day before saving and closing the application. When I tried to resume my work an hour later, I was unable to access the editor for any of my ebooks.

Clicking the "edit book" button has an icon pop up on my task bar, but no window pops up. When I attempt to pull up the window from the task bar nothing happens. The preview of the window (when I hover my curser over the icon) shows a slim, white rectangle with the name of the ebook and nothing else. This is affecting all of my existing EPUB files and any new EPUB or AZW3 files that I've tried to create.

I've tried restarting Calibre, reinstalling Calibre, restarting my computer, and using AZW3 instead of EPUB (which is what all of my current ebooks are). Nothing has been working so far. At this point, I can't even start my work over (which would be heartbreaking enough) because creating a blank ebook runs into the same issue.

I've done my best to find guides for this online, but wasn't able to pull up anything that was relevant or worked. I do have the debug report added below, though I'm unsure how to read it or if it will be helpful.

Any advice on how to resolve this so I can get back to making my ebooks would be appreciated.

calibre 7.17  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.22631-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.22631')
Python 3.11.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.22631', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
USB devices on system:
(USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x1858 bcd=0x111 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_1858&rev_0111&mi_02 devinst=9),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\vid_04d9&pid_a0f8&rev_03=0&mi_02 devinst=31),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xbda product_id=0x555d bcd=0x2401 devid=usb\vid_0bda&pid_555d&rev_2401&mi_04 devinst=10),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xd62 product_id=0x3740 bcd=0x110 devid=usb\vid_0d62&pid_3740&rev_0110&mi_01 devinst=11),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x185a bcd=0x113 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_185a&rev_0113&mi_00 devinst=37),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x187c product_id=0x551 bcd=0x200 devid=usb\vid_187c&pid_0551&rev_0200 devinst=12),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xd62 product_id=0x3740 bcd=0x110 devid=usb\vid_0d62&pid_3740&rev_0110 devinst=13),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x1858 bcd=0x111 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_1858&rev_0111&mi_03 devinst=14),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\vid_04d9&pid_a0f8&rev_03=0 devinst=32),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xbda product_id=0x555d bcd=0x2401 devid=usb\vid_0bda&pid_555d&rev_2401&mi_00 devinst=16),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x185a bcd=0x113 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_185a&rev_0113&mi_01 devinst=38),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x1858 bcd=0x111 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_1858&rev_0111&mi_04 devinst=17),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\root_hub30&vid8086&pida71e&rev0000 devinst=18),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\root_hub30&vid8086&pid51ed&rev0001 devinst=19),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x185a bcd=0x113 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_185a&rev_0113&mi_02 devinst=39),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xbda product_id=0x328 bcd=0x2908 devid=usb\vid_0bda&pid_0328&rev_2908 devinst=20),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x1858 bcd=0x111 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_1858&rev_0111&mi_00 devinst=21),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\vid_04d9&pid_a0f8&rev_03=0&mi_00 devinst=33),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xbda product_id=0x555d bcd=0x2401 devid=usb\vid_0bda&pid_555d&rev_2401&mi_02 devinst=22),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x185a bcd=0x113 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_185a&rev_0113&mi_03 devinst=40),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x185a bcd=0x113 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_185a&rev_0113 devinst=41),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x1858 bcd=0x111 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_1858&rev_0111&mi_01 devinst=26),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\vid_04d9&pid_a0f8&rev_03=0&mi_01 devinst=34),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xd62 product_id=0x3740 bcd=0x110 devid=usb\vid_0d62&pid_3740&rev_0110&mi_00 devinst=27),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x1858 bcd=0x111 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_1858&rev_0111 devinst=28),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x8087 product_id=0x33 bcd=0x0 devid=usb\vid_8087&pid_0033&rev_0000 devinst=29),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0xbda product_id=0x555d bcd=0x2401 devid=usb\vid_0bda&pid_555d&rev_2401 devinst=30),
 USBDevice(vendor_id=0x1038 product_id=0x185a bcd=0x113 devid=usb\vid_1038&pid_185a&rev_0113&mi_04 devinst=42))

No disabled plugins
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
The Windows WPD service says there are no portable devices connected
 
Looking for devices of type: SMART_DEVICE_APP
All IP addresses {'{57E585D4-2B5F-40DE-AC48-65C3CF4ECC84}': [{'addr': '192.168.1.225', 'netmask': '255.255.255.0', 'broadcast': '192.168.1.255'}], '{EAF01751-6B3A-11EF-9120-806E6F6E6963}': [{'addr': '127.0.0.1', 'netmask': '255.0.0.0', 'broadcast': '127.255.255.255'}]}
No device is connected
 
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Devices possibly connected: None

[kovidgoyal]

This is caused by incompatibilities between Qt WebEngine (used by the viewer and editor) and the graphics drivers
on your system. Try updating the graphics drivers, if that does not work, you can try disabling hardware acceleration
by setting the environment variable QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu". If neither of these work then I suggest
downgrading to calibre 7.16 which has an older version of Qt WebEngine for the time being.