Hi, I don't know if anyone might have some more insight into this, but I'm going to try anyway.
At the first of June, I posted saying that kaudiocreator kept freezing during the ripping process. When it froze, ps -ax revealed that the process of kaudiocreator and kscd both were in "uninterruptible sleep" (i.e. they had a D beside them). When this happens, my system locks up and I can't even open the CD tray. I have to push the reset button to restart my system. There is no consistency in what is going on. I have ripped 1 CD in entirety, another kept freezing, but when I started kaudiocreator again, I was able to rip the tracks a couple at a time. Sometimes it will rip a track, start to encode (ogg vorbis) and then freeze. The only commonality that the CD's have is the artist. They are all new (meaning not used) and range from a release date of 1994 to 2006. The 2006 release ripped fine in kaudiocreator under kde 3.4.3, but won't rip under kde 3.5.2. And it's not likely that it's a copy protection issue since the 2006 release ripped fine under kde 3.4.3. I try to keep my system up to date and use relatively few testing releases. I deliberately waited for kde 3.5 to become stable by Gentoo standards before upgrading. Since the initial upgrade of KDE 3.5 (meta) (installed to a new slot), I've removed both KDE 3.4.3 and KDE 3.5.2 and reinstalled. I've wiped my .kde/share/config directory and started fresh. Nothing seems to help. As previously stated, kaudiocreator worked fine under kde 3.4.3. Also, I've been able to burn a data CD in kde 3.5.2, so I know that it's not the CD drive. /var/log/messages keeps telling me that the drive isn't ready, but I can hear it spinning up. I'd like to get this thing working. It's not that I'm so enamoured with kaudiocreator. When I was a Fedora Core user, I used sound-juicer. However, I *am* enamoured with Gentoo because I don't have to install all the bloat of things that I don't want. sound-juicer requires the Gnome Desktop and I refuse to have that on my system. Any ideas would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
