Version: all versions >0.12 (using Devel) Compiler: gcc 4.3.2 OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources I have the same problem with ALL k3b versions greater than 0.12.17: the drive is constantly polled. One second k3b 'sees' the empty media, the next one it is gone. I can enable, disable hal flag. I can remove the drive from the hal polling or add it, no changes. See also this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235941 k3b is completly unusable. If I downgrade to 0.12.17 it 'magically' starts to work again. The drive is an ide nec burner in an external usb enclosure. dmesg shows this: 94411.325142] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.19 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [94411.334249] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [94411.334339] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [94411.334407] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 [94458.970649] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94468.443910] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94481.941285] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94490.444742] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94504.006239] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94511.444744] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94524.934416] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94532.444747] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94545.943080] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94554.434738] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94567.956644] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94576.434726] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94589.940236] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [94598.434737] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [94611.945429] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [95557.444637] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [95570.943714] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [95579.444637] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 nothing on konsole.
I can confirm this problem on my laptop: OpenSUSE 11.1, k3b 1.0.5 on KDE 3.5.10, the dvd writer is an internal SATA drive: kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-832S 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray kernel: sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 kernel: sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 When k3b is running and an empty dvd is inserted, the system log shows lots of these messages: kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen kernel: ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 16392 in kernel: cdb ac 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 00 kernel: res 40/00:03:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY } kernel: ata1: hard resetting link kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/25 kernel: ata1: EH complete During this, k3b keeps recognizing the empty medium, and then loses it again. In contrast, when k3b is NOT running, inserting the empty disc shows the following once: kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0 kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Burning with braserio or other tools then works without any problems, so this seems indeed to be a problem with k3b.
Hi, I installed kde svn on tuesday and k3b svn today and good news: it just worked. No constant polling, nothing. Just clean burning. Hal version is 0.5.12_rc1-r4
so I can mark this as fixed now. :)
I still have to try kde 3.5.XY but I am not very enthusiastic about it ;)