k3b race condition with mp3?

[Alex White]

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