Nautilus: can't disable "Perform action on blank disc when inserted" & DVD writing troubles

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:08 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have two issues: in preferences -> Removable Drives and Media
> Preferences I disabled everything and even removed the "nautilus
> --no-desktop burn:" line. But when I insert a blank DVD Nautilus still
> grabs it and displays the DVD icon on the Desktop called "Blank DVD-RW
> Disc". I don't know if this is related to my other problem: when I try
> to burn an iso image with e.g. K3B it doesn't work because K3B can't get
> an exclusive lock on the NEC 2510A DVD+/-RW drive. K3B's debugging
> output is:
> 
> Devices
> -----------------------
> _NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A 2.18 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrecorder [CD-R;
> CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R
> Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD
> +R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; RAW/R96R]
> 
> System
> -----------------------
> K3b Version: 0.11.23
> KDE Version: 3.4.1-0.fc4.1 Red Hat
> QT Version:  3.3.4
> Kernel:      2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
> 
> growisofs
> -----------------------
> Executing 'builtin_dd
> if=/home/patrick/Downloads/0_CentOS/CentOS-4.1-i386-binDVD1/CentOS-4.1-i386-binDVD1.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0'
> /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 4.0x1385KBps.
> :-! "COMMAND SEQUENCE ERROR"@LBA=0h. Is media being read?
> :-! the LUN appears to be stuck at 0h, retrying in 5 secs...
> :-! "COMMAND SEQUENCE ERROR"@LBA=0h. Is media being read?
> :-! the LUN appears to be stuck at 0h, retrying in 5 secs...
>          0/2215698432 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
>          0/2215698432 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
> :-! "COMMAND SEQUENCE ERROR"@LBA=0h. Is media being read?
> :-! the LUN appears to be stuck at 0h, retrying in 5 secs...
>          0/2215698432 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
> and on and on and on...
> 
> growisofs comand used by K3B:
> -----------------------------
> /usr/bin/growisofs
> -Z /dev/hdc=/home/patrick/Downloads/0_CentOS/CentOS-4.1-i386-binDVD1/CentOS-4.1-i386-binDVD1.iso -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -dvd-compat -speed=4
> 
> Using the command above from the command line gives the same error. In
> runlevel 1 & 3 it also does not work and I have also tried the last 3
> kernels. Strangely I can burn the iso image fine with the command:
> cdrecord -v -dao <iso image>  Now why would it work with cdrecord and
> not with growisofs?
> 
> So does anyone have an idea how I can force Nautilus not to touch my
> DVD's ever when it's configured to not touch them? And how I can fix the
> problem with K3B/growisofs not working? Tips much appreciated!

Nautilus isn't touching your drive, simply informing you that there is
an entry in fstab which points to /dev/hdc created by HAL. I would file
a bug against k3b or growisofs.  Booting into runlevel 1 and it still
doesn't work points to a problem with the program trying to write to the
dvd.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>