Hello Nicolas, Nicolas [2010-06-07 16:29 +0200]: > Calibre uses the 'calibre-mount-helper' program for some ebook readers, like > the SONY Touch Edition. > Without it, the reader is not correctly detected, and calibre can't send or > retrieve files to it.
I recently got a similar report in Ubuntu [1]. calibre-mount-helper isn't really appropriate to ship, both from a security and an architecture perspective, and also it does not have _any_ hardware specific logic. It's basically just a suid root wrapper around mount and unmount. For the record, I have a PRS-505, and it's detected just fine by calibre. Do you use a desktop with automounting, such as GNOME or KDE? I. e. is your reader automounted correctly, but just not recognized by calibre? What I could do is to ship a small shell script with the same name instead which just calls udisks --mount, etc., or simply exit 0 (since the device is already automounted). Can you please try this in a Terminal: echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0' | sudo tee /usr/bin/calibre-mount-helper sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/calibre-mount-helper This will create a dummy calibre-mount-helper which does nothing and avoid the error message. Does it work then? Thanks, Martin [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/561958 -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
