[kde-linux] k3b verify problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 20:18:01 david wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Thursday 31 July 2008 08:58:50 Dale wrote:
> >>> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>> Is there a problem with k3b in 2008.1?  I've just installed Mandriva
> >>>> on my daughter's laptop and confidently told her to burn with k3b. 
> >>>> She burned one, the disc ejected, but didn't retract and the verify
> >>>> stuck there.  The second time she caught it as it ejected and pushed
> >>>> it in immediately it released. It didn't verify.  I changed the
> >>>> setting so that it wouldn't eject, but the third burn didn't verify
> >>>> either.
> >>>>
> >>>> That is, not that they gave a 'bad burn' but that it didn't even start
> >>>> to verify.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone know why or what I can do?  It's most embarrassing.  I told her
> >>>> that it was so simple and reliable, but I'll not convince her if she
> >>>> can't verify her backups.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anne
> >>>
> >>> Hi Anne,
> >>>
> >>> You may want to check the Gentoo mailing lists and/or forums.  I
> >>> remember this being a issue a few months ago.  I think it has been
> >>> fixed but not real sure.
> >>
> >> I'll do some googling, but I remember that many people reported that
> >> setting the tray not to eject solved their problem.  I'm pretty sure I
> >> did that on one of my systems, too, so I was shocked to find that it
> >> didn't solve it on this system.
> >>
> >> Anne
> >
> > This may help:
> >
> > root at smoker / # equery list k3b
> > [ Searching for package 'k3b' in all categories among: ]
> >  * installed packages
> > [I--] [ ~] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 (0)
> > root at smoker / # equery list hal
> > [ Searching for package 'hal' in all categories among: ]
> >  * installed packages
> > [I--] [  ] app-misc/hal-info-20070618 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9.1-r3 (0)
> > root at smoker / #
> >
> > That's my versions of k3b and hal.  It does not verify if it is set to
> > eject but does if it is set not to eject.  That is the status with these
> > versions anyway.  May want to check what versions you have available.
>
> Mine:
> K3B - 1.1~svn20080108.2200+r758580-0rarewares1
> hal - 0.5.11~rc2-1
>
> I wonder if the versions of cdrdao and cdrecord have any impact?

David, have you tested different disk standards?  -R and +R, etc.?

Anne
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