Inserting and empty CD and trying to burn it with K3b (cdrecord) results in write errors and a CD to trow away ;) What happens under KDE is that, almost immediately after writing starts, the write errors appear along with the "nice" KDE popup window "A new medium as been detected...". Stopping "hald" solves the problem. I don't know if is hald or something in KDE triggered by it that interfere with burning... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: My mainboard is an Intel DG965Gss. The CD/DVD burner is a PATA LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B driven by the Marvell PATA driver (libata). Relevant packages: sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r3 sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha10 kde 3.5.6 emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/" LANG="$LC_ALL" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment /usr/portage/local/layman/voip" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="16bit X a52 aac acpi aiglx alsa amd64 apache2 arts audiofile bash-completion bitmap-fonts blender-game bzip2 cairo ccache cdda cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib cscope css cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb freetype2 gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde largeterminal lcms libg++ live lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate mad midi mikmod ming mjpeg mmap moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rar rdesktop readline reflection rtc scanner sdl session sndfile spamassassin spl ssl startup-notification stream subtitles tcltk tcpd theora threads threadsafe tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd vim-with-x vorbis wxwindows xcomposite xface xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 111384 [details] k3b screenshot :)
Another note: it doesn't happen with DVDs (growisofs - dvd+rw-tools-7.0).
The media notifier getting in the ways shouldn't be a problem with K3B 1.0, right!?
(In reply to comment #3) > The media notifier getting in the ways shouldn't be a problem with K3B 1.0, > right!? > Ok, I cannot reproduce it with K3b 1.0 :) I'm closing this. Anyway I wonder what happens to others CD-burning apps or if I just start cdrecord from command line... I'll buy a RW CD to do some tests (I don't want to throw away others CDs :)
