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Calibre stuck on "initialising user interface"
Hi all,
After a few years of smooth operation, Calibre suddenly stopped working. It gets stuck on the "initializing user interface" dialog whenever I try to open it. I have tried everything - rebooting the computer, upgrading Calibre, downgrading Calibre, deleting Calibre from disk, and installing it again - no luck. I would greatly appreciate any help. Macbook Pro M1 2020, OSX 14.5 |
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Try running as
/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre-debug -g from Terminal.app that will give you more debug information |
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This is what I get:
lukasz@Lukasz-MBP-3 ~ % /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre -debug -g Usage: calibre [options] [path_to_ebook or calibre url ...] Launch the main calibre Graphical User Interface and optionally add the e-book at path_to_ebook to the database. You can also specify calibre URLs to perform various different actions, than just adding books. For example: calibre://view-book/test_library/1842/epub Will open the book with id 1842 in the EPUB format from the library "test_library" in the calibre E-book viewer. Library names are the folder names of the libraries with spaces replaced by underscores. A full description of the various URL based actions is in the User Manual. Whenever you pass arguments to calibre that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces" calibre: error: no such option: -d |
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you have inserted a spurious space between calibre and -debug remove it and try again
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Oh
![]() ![]() Now, the Terminal.app freezes, attached the screenshot. Thank you! |
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That looks like it is getting stuck in Qt. Try the next calibre release which has an updated Qt version that fixes various macOS specific bugs. Or you can use the preview release: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=359648
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