On Wednesday 17 August 2005 05:59 am, Stephen Kuhn mercilessly beat the
keyboard, and wrote:
| On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:58 pm, Anne Wilson tapped out:
| > On Wednesday 17 Aug 2005 02:00, Aron Smith wrote:
| > > My DVD writer suddenly stopped working although k3b says that it is
| > > working fine and that everything was burned correctly, when I
| > > examine the disk I see that nothing was burned.
| > > how do I do a test burn without using k3b
| > > This just started after updating my system
| > > the DVD Writer is a Pioneer DVR -109 running externally via USB
| > > System is a Fujitsu lifebook 7010 with 1 Gb ram
| > > OS LE 2005
| >
| > Install xcdroast. It's got an old-fashioned gnomish interface, but I
| > find that some things are easier on xcdroast, so I keep both
| > installed and use both.
| >
| > The other thing to try is launching k3b from a root console. You may
| > get pointers in the messages printed out there.
| >
| > Can I take it that you have tried more than one disk, just in case it
| > was a matter of bad media?
| >
| > Anne
|
| Why are we even bothering to just start throwing out suggestions about
| changing the software the bloke is using? There is obviously something
| more going on - below the level of application software. I myself
| witnessed this upon my first installation of LE2005 - so we need to
| think a bit lower down than the application level - such as if the
| mount point has been "automagically" changed - or if the fstab has been
| modified - and such.
|
| So being that it worked before, what has changed since that point? Was
| there a system upgrade done? (URPMI or similar) A kernel change? fstab
| change?
When I up'd to 2005LED, I was unable to burn CD's. K3b defaults to using
cdrecord to burn disks, so I enabled manual application selection, and
tried cdrdao which works. I now use 2006.0, but have not tried cdresord
again yet. Could this be a similar issue?
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Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Registered Linux User 247790
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