On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> I justed to update people on the list about what I've discovered about my
> problems with running cdrecord on my new Linux box. At first, I had no
> problems, then I was unable to erase re-writable cds or complete the
> process of writing to recordable cds. I looked through all the newsgroups
> and talked to the VA Linux folks. I even emailed the author of cdrecord
> who said the log files showed nothing really wrong on cdrecord's end. He
> suspected a Linux kernel problem.
>
> Turns out it was Gnome! I had been running cdrecord from the command line
> inside Gnome. Last night, as a lark, I thought I would quit out of Gnome
> and run tests without X. Everything worked great. And I think the reason
> things initially worked well was because I was running inside KDE, but
> then switched desktops to Gnome.
>
> Why on earth would running inside Gnome cause problems like that, spewing
> out error messages and scsi card timeout errors in my /var/log/message
> file? I would love to hear what people think.
I always record CDs under Gnome. The only thing special I can think of
that Gnome does is to run the CD automounter. Perhaps try this.
Find out the PID of the automounter:
# ps -ef | grep magicdev
Then kill it. This is ok, since it will be restarted when you logout and
then log back in. Now (before logging out and back in) try recording the
CDs.
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