On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > <snip> > > >> > 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! > > <snip> > > > That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we > > should file a bug report. > > <snip> > > > 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. 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