Version:           2.0.0 (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574543

bject: k3b: K3B fails to register any writable DVD-RAM devices,
 even though wodim does so easily.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:03:35 -0700

Package: k3b
Version: 1.90.0~rc1-1
Severity: important

k3b is persistently telling me that I have no DVD-RAM drives present. This is surprising because Wodim -scanbus has been doing so for many hours now. k3b keeps wanting me to start hal, which is in fact running already -- it ha sbeen since I deleted my chroot stack a couple of weeks ago after K3B told me that it was inhibited by the presence of a running chroot.

N.B.: Deleting a chroot stack does not appear to be the innocuous easy operation I expected. When I did so, it in fact deleted my entire home directory, too.

At any rate, k3b appears to be useless in its present state. And I need the convenience of k3b as opposed to the many, many options of wodim. Thank you very much!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages k3b depends on:
ii  cdparanoia               3.10.2+debian-9 audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  cdrdao                   1:1.2.2-18.1    records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) 
ii  genisoimage              9:1.1.10-1      Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  k3b-data                 1.90.0~rc1-1    A sophisticated CD/DVD burning app
ii  kdebase-runtime          4:4.3.4-2       runtime components from the offici
ii  kdelibs5                 4:4.3.4-3       core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.4.2-9       GCC support library
ii  libk3b6                  1.90.0~rc1-1    The KDE CD/DVD burning application
ii  libkcddb4                4:4.3.4-1       CDDB library for KDE 4 (runtime)
ii  libmusicbrainz4c2a       2.1.5-4         Second generation incarnation of t
ii  libqt4-dbus              4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network           4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-qt3support        4:4.5.3-4       Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 
ii  libqt4-svg               4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 SVG module
ii  libqt4-webkit            4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 WebKit module
ii  libqt4-xml               4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4               4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6               4.4.2-9         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  wodim                    9:1.1.10-1      command line CD/DVD writing tool

Versions of packages k3b recommends:
ii  dvd+rw-tools                7.1-6        DVD+-RW/R tools
ii  libk3b6-extracodecs         1.90.0~rc1-1 The KDE CD/DVD burning application
ii  vcdimager                   0.7.23-4+b2  A VideoCD (VCD) image mastering an

Versions of packages k3b suggests:
pn  k3b-extrathemes               <none>     (no description available)
pn  k3b-i18n                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  movixmaker-2                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  normalize-audio               <none>     (no description available)
pn  sox                           <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
From: Willy Gommel <wg3w@spamcop.net>
To: 574543@bugs.debian.org
Subject: My bug is, alas, still present
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:22:34 -0700

Hi there!

I just got the news that your new 2.0 version was up in unstable.

I downloaded it and started it.

Alas, the very first thing the program did was complain that no writable CD 
media drives were in my system, and that hal needs to be in and working/up and 
running.

This, as you may recall, is essentially the same behavior as the previous 
version had.

I might note in passing that it is only my 2 DVD-RW drives that are presently 
configured as SATA devices. (My two HDDs are still the old-fashioned parallel 
ATA models.) Perhaps this will help to find my problem.

Thank you very much!

-- 
  ............................................................... Willy Gommel
                                                                  www.wg3.net


OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-5-amd64
Compiler: cc