On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've > > discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs. > > In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount > daemons trying to auto-mount a disc as I'm trying to write to it. I > suspect you might be having the same problem, because of this in your > wodim output: > > Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource > busy)... retrying in 1 second. >
That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes. I think the retry succeeds. I have not gone to the lengths of renaming the "magic" files, but I have unmounted the CD to see if it made a difference - which it did not. > Since I hate those auto-thingies anyway, I just killed them off, and > renamed the binary to keep them from starting again. (Removing the > package often isn't a good idea because the package may also provide a > library other programs link against.) > > I remember the GNOME auto-thingy was called "MagicDev" at one time. I > don't remember the name of the KDE auto-thingy, and I don't know if > either of those might be using a new auto-thingy by now. (As of late, > I'm running FVWM, which doesn't start auto-thingies by default anyway, > so I don't have recent experience.) > > -- Ben Actually that is a good idea there. I can switch to runlevel 3 and see if wodim works. That eliminates all of the GUI magic. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
