Bug 385667

Summary: K3B doesn't close Blu-ray discs correctly
Product: [Applications] k3b Reporter: Lloyd Osten <lloyd.osten>
Component: CopyingAssignee: k3b developers <k3b>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: bugseforuns, lloyd.osten, michalm, scdbackup, trueg, zhaixiang
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mageia RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Lloyd Osten 2017-10-12 18:19:34 UTC 
First off....I'm using K3b 2.10.0 as shipped with Mageia 6. I have several Blu-ray data discs that I've made myself. However, when I try to use the K3B's "COPY" function, I immediately get an error that says "unsupported media type."
I tried burning the same ISO file using BurnAware and CDburnXP (both running under Windows 10) and the discs work perfectly. K3B *WILL* let me copy the discs I made using these two Windows programs. So I put one of my "bad" discs (11 out of 12 are not copyable - the 12th one only works because something crashed when I made it). The two Windows programs report the discs as "incomplete disc.) Even K3B comes up with a message that says "APPENDABLE DATA ERROR." I believe the discs are not being closed or finalized correctly. Thank you.
Comment 1 Leslie Zhai 2017-10-13 03:03:02 UTC 
Hi Lloyd,

v2.10.0 was not be maintained any more, please use K3b v17.08 https://github.com/KDE/k3b

Regards,
Leslie Zhai
Comment 2 Lloyd Osten 2017-12-04 18:25:49 UTC 
I'm thinking it's a problem with GROWISOFS. This problem has been around for a while. It also fails using openSUSE and Fedora Core 27. Version 17.08 still has this problem
Comment 3 Leslie Zhai 2017-12-05 05:24:14 UTC 
Hi Thomas,

Please help Lloyd to debug GROWISOFS, thanks a lot!

Regards,
Leslie Zhai
Comment 4 Leslie Zhai 2017-12-05 05:25:09 UTC 
*** Bug 387599 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Thomas Schmitt 2017-12-05 09:10:55 UTC 
Hi,

i cannot find the message text "APPENDABLE DATA ERROR" in the current K3B
source. Please post the original message.

Also please post the output of program run

  dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0

when one of the problematic BD-R media is inserted.
(I assume that your drive has address /dev/sr0. If you have more than one,
 then it could be /dev/sr1, /dev/sr2, ...)

If you burn some BD-R medium again, then please ishow the growisofs
command line, which K3B used, and the other debug messages.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

growisofs keeps most media types appendable by default. But afaik,
K3B adds options like -dvd-compat which would cause closing of the medium.

There is a bug in original growisofs about the end of a BD-R burn run.
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=713016
But that is supposed not to spoil the medium but to only let growisofs
report failure to its caller. (Thus i deem it a candidate for bug 387599.)

Have a nice day :)

Thomas
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2017-12-31 09:28:20 UTC 
If you can provide the information requested in comment #5, please add it.
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2018-01-17 16:01:29 UTC 
To further investigate this issue, KDE developers need the information requested in comment #5. If you can provide it, or need help with finding that information, please add a comment.
Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2018-01-31 01:14:54 UTC 
No response; changing status. If you have new information, please add a comment.