Bug 77378

Summary:	k3b hangs at detecting cdrom drives
Product:	[Applications] k3b	Reporter:	Jelte Werkhoven <jelte>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Sebastian Trueg <trueg>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jelte Werkhoven 2004-03-12 13:24:09 UTC

Version:           0.11 (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          delletje:~ # gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
 
OS:          Linux

Starting k3b on my system causes the application to hang in a uninterruptable sleep state when detecting the drives. Application will never terminate, can not be killed even with kill -9. /var/log/messages reports:kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data.

Although this is probably a kernel error of some kind, it might be nice to have k3b degrade more elegantly on this error, as having to reboot a machine to kill of an application is not very nice. =)

Comment 1 Sebastian Trueg 2004-03-12 17:25:04 UTC

use k3b 0.11.6 and if you are running kernel 2.6.x make sure it's at least 2.6.4

Comment 2 Greg Watson 2004-03-13 20:43:58 UTC

I have almost the same problem.

Gentoo, kde 3.2.1, k3b 0.11.6 and 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 kernel and the system hangs. (hard have to hit reset button)

So similary problem here, more serious.

Going to see if I can find a 2.6.4 kernel and test with that.

Comment 3 Greg Watson 2004-03-13 21:39:17 UTC

Found the problem.  It appears that the ide-scsi emulation was causing the lockup.

I disabled it and everything works on 2.6.3 now.

Comment 4 Jelte Werkhoven 2004-03-16 11:52:47 UTC

Upgrading to 2.6.4 & k3b 0.11.6 solved the problem. Thanks for the great program, Sebastian, I think it's one of the leading programs in KDE regarding useability and appearance. Cheers!

Comment 5 Jelte Werkhoven 2004-03-16 11:53:19 UTC

Forgot to put status to resolved