k3b race condition with mp3?
Alex White
prata at kuei-jin.org
Mon Oct 11 18:26:05 UTC 2004
john bray wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 02:51, khage wrote:
>
> I have used k3b successfully for some time, burning dvds, data
> music for
> a while on both dvdrs and cd's.
> But lately k3b sometimes when i burn mp3 get the whole fedora to
> a
> standstill, the harddisk works overtime and cant even bring up
> the
> screen after one hour working :)
> I have been able to shutdown as root though(ctrl-alt+f2) and got
> no
> errors through the shutdown process.
> Today the same happened and i got a bunch of errors (when
> shutting
> down), it told me that highmem was 0 and i was out of memory for
> each
> gnomeapplet/program that had a processid (probably).
>
> I have fc2 installed with the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel, latest k3b,
> running
> gnome (that followed fc2), latest xorg-x11, updated last night
> in hope
> to solve this issue.
> My box: athlon 1.33, 512 mb ram, nvidia geforce2 32 mb...
>
> My question is where to look in my box for some useful info that
> i can
> try to solve this issue? im for sure running out of memory.
>
> Btw, could the xserver also be involved in this memory issue?
>
>
> Several of us are having similar problems with this. It seems to happen
> with about any attempt at burning an audio cd. I believe that the
> problem is in cdrecord, rather than k3b.
>
> john
>
Burning audio CDs has a race condition which as been filed in
bugzilla I believe and is soon to be fixed. It's a known issue
with kernel 2.6.8-1.521.
This problem has been noted a few times, it's not a k3b issue.
In fact, I just had a thread concerning this matter.
HTH
Alex White
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