Hi, as I cannot reproduce this crash, could you please do the following test:
* backup /usr/share/calibre/localization/locales.zip * replace it by the file downloaded from http://www.preining.info/locales.zip With this change, does calibre start again? Thanks for testing Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13