When I try to burn a dvd image or to create a data dvd using k3b, growisofs fails with this debug output: System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.12.15 KDE Version: 3.5.2 QT Version: 3.3.6 Kernel: 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 Devices ----------------------- _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A 1.04 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrecorder1 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW; DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R sequenziale; DVD-RW a riscrittura limitata; DVD-RW sequenziale; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R a doppio strato; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Riscrittura limitata] _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A 1.09 (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/cdrecorder [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R sequenziale; DVD-RW a riscrittura limitata; DVD-RW sequenziale; DVD+RW; DVD+R; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96R; RAW/R96R; Riscrittura limitata] Used versions ----------------------- growisofs: 6.1 growisofs ----------------------- :-( unable to anonymously mmap 33554432: Resource temporarily unavailable growisofs command: ----------------------- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=/tmp/kde-cristiano/k3b_image.iso -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -dvd-compat -speed=8 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac alsa arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin calendar cdb cdda cdparanoia cjk clamav crypt css cups divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss emul-linux-x86 encode fame ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gif gimp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal icq ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mime mng mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia objc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib perl php pic png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl spell ssl subtitles tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd videos vorbis wxwindows xine xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_it userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK
read the einfo after install dvd+rw-tools this is not a bug.