On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
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On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote:
I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into
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I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an install!
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That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we should file a bug report.
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If you have a spare disk you might do a test burn, while it's on your mind? Let us know what happens.
Anne: This seems OT and probably a bug report or a support request, on CentOS or at Upstream would be appropriate?
Before you can file a bug report that is likely to help get anything sorted, you have to be able to define the problem. At the moment I don't think you have done so.
This morning, I took two (2) CD-RW media, one Imation and one Verbatim, and I tried this. Each of them had four (4) photos on them, a few MB of stuff. No Joy here. I get different results than you do. When I hoped it would automatically erase the CD-RW, as it did for you, before writing new data, I got this Error: The disk is either empty or is not appendable".
When I tried Tools > Erase CD-RW (I tried Erase Fast, Complete and Last Session and got the same results), I got, "The Erasing process failed. Do you want to see the debugging output?". Below is that file. Should a bug or support request be filed about K3b? If so, where? Will you do that? I suspect that K3b a very widely used application. I was logged in as a normal user, not root. TIA, Lanny
System
K3b Version: 0.12.17
KDE Version: 3.5.4-16.el5.centos CentOS QT Version: 3.3.6 Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 Devices
SONY CD-RW CRX216E PD03 (/dev/hdd, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R]
HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0D20 (/dev/hdc, ) at [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] Used versions
cdrecord: 2.1
cdrecord command:
/usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -overburn blank=fast -force
cdrecord
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: '/dev/hdd' devname: '/dev/hdd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'.
I agree with Kay that this implies that the drive is mounted. You MUST make sure that it isn't before using k3b.
Cannot open SCSI driver. /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
When and if you get this to the point when you can make a good report, that output tells you to do it at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla. You might find it helpful to search bugzilla to see what has already been said about this.
Anne