Kindlegen Killed: 9

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I know this isn’t a kindlegen support forum, but I was hoping someone here had bumped into this problem and might be able to help :slight_smile:

When I run KindleGen (OS X El Capitan) it exits with “Killed: 9”

I have removed the quarantine attribute with xattr. No change. Moving KindleGen into /Applications, or into my home folder, makes no change.

The KindleGen support forums are a wasteland :slight_smile:

Help?

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To get the basic stuff out of the way:

  • I’d first make sure the binary is the latest version available from Amazon.
  • Check to see if you can execute it manually. If you need some source material to work with, the command can take epub files.
  • I would not expect a SIGKILL (assuming that is what they mean by “Killed: 9”) to occur for this reason, but while you’re on the command-line run an ls -l and make sure the executable bit is set. Some unzippers fumble on UNIX permissions.
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Thanks Amber. I’ve ticked off all three of those (yep, latest binary, no can’t execute manually, and yep it’s executable).

I gave up, installed Calibre, and used that to convert from EPUB to MOBI, then uploaded that into the Amazon store :slight_smile: