K3b cannot burn a CD

Matt Morgan matt.morgan-fedora-list at brooklynmuseum.org
Mon May 24 14:44:38 UTC 2004


On 05/24/2004 10:21 AM, Austin Isler wrote:

>If that happens try making sure you dont have programs like KsCD running
>in the background. With KsCD, it usually docks in kicker when you X it
>out and not choose Quit. Sometimes you won't realize its still there.
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Interesting. So that little CD icon down there is kscd, I never noticed 
it before! (I am more familiar with gnome, still learning kde.)

The question is, how do I keep kscd from starting itself up automatically?

Thanks,
Matt

>Austin
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>On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:33, Matt Morgan wrote:
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>>On 05/22/2004 12:24 PM, ByteEnable wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I have tried k3b on two different machines with two different CD writers.  K3b 
>>>is unable to burn a CD correctly.
>>>
>>>On one machine it can never finish writing the pre track burn, but complains 
>>>of buffer problem when it hasn't actually used the buffer yet.
>>>
>>>Other machine, k3b burns at speeds greater than I have specified, resulting in 
>>>burn errors.  The drive is only rated at 2X burn, but k3b is burning at 4X 
>>>even when I have specified to burn at 2X!
>>>
>>>Has anybody had any success with k3b on Fedora 2?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Byte
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>>I'm not on FC2 yet, sorry, but on FC1 I have an issue with burning under 
>>k3b (under anything, actually) because kscd grabs the burner when I log 
>>in and cdrecord can't lock it. Unless you're sure this isn't your 
>>problem, try
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>>ps ax | grep cd
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>>and see if you get a response like
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>>12736 ?        S      0:06 /usr/bin/autorun -l --interval=1000 
>>--cdplayer=/usr/bin/kscd
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>>If you do, then
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>>kill 12736
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>>and try to burn with k3b again. Sorry if this is fixed under FC2, I lost 
>>track of the list for a little while.
>>
>>--Matt
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