Re: [kde-linux] k3b verify problem

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 31 July 2008 11:38:38 david 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.
Hmmm, IMHO, an old and longstanding bug in K3B and/or HALD and/or some
other component of KDE that (IIRC) you yourself once mentioned only
rarely afflicts users and then only users of certain hardware ...
anyway, me being one of the lucky victims of this bug (I was the one who
noticed that on my system K3B was burning track0 but then trying to
verify track1), the solution is to set K3B to NOT eject the disc after
burning. Then it goes ahead and verifies just fine. After the
verification is complete, you can eject the disc via K3B's menus/icons.

As I said, I had already set it to not eject. However, this morning I have
made some interesting discoveries. Verify works fine with CDs and DVD+RW
disks. It seems to be just DVD-R disks that it won't verify.

Mostly it just hangs at the 50% mark, not starting to verify, but twice it has
crashed k3b altogether.

For backup purposes using RW disks will be fine. I've added my discoveries to
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38578 but I guess I should also
search the kde bug reports to see whether it needs adding there as well.

Interesting that the disc format would make a difference.

Since K3B uses command line tools to do the actual work (right?), I
wonder if doing the same sequence of actions using a script at the
command line would have the same problem?

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David
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