I have a question regarding runlevel 5 vs. 3 and Linux version
2.2.14-5.0.14b when burning a cd.
I was backing up my hard drive using multiCD 1.6.3, a Linux perl script
available at freshmeat.net, I've backed up my machine with it every other
week for a year and a half without a problem, going through up to 14 discs
when doing a full backup.
Recently, I changed /etc/inittab so that initdefault is runlevel 5,
instead of 3, to load gdm, the Gnome login manager.
It appears that at runlevel 5, when cdrecord was "Fixating..." a disk,
burning the CD failed. The first time, I got through a few disks, and then
on Disc 4, it died. From that point forward, I tried rebooting the machine
and various other things -- killing X and other applications, to no avail.
On each first disk from then on, it failed.
Only when I changed back the initdefault to runlevel 3 and rebooted, did
everything work as before and I was able to do a 7-disc backup. I am
*assuming*, therefore, that this was the problem. I was again running it
under X with my other apps loaded as before.
I googled some newsgroups and noticed a patch for the kernel, I think
version 2.2.16, but it was unclear to me if this was the same problem as
mine and if it would only happen at runlevel 5.
Other info: the Sony CD-RW CRX145S drive, cdrecord version 1.8, KDE 1.1.2.
Does anyone know anything about this and could you shed some light on
my experience? Any thoughts, info much appreciated.
The/var/log/messages file reported:
Jul 5 09:57:46 clt88-171-065 kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I
recognise!
and...
Jul 5 10:25:50 clt88-171-065 kernel: sym53c810a-0-<6,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100
ns, offset 8)
Jul 5 10:44:18 clt88-171-065 kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 380867) timed out -
resetting
Jul 5 10:59:10 clt88-171-065 kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Here's what I got at the command line:
Input/output error. test unit
ready: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2
(CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 the Sony
CD-RW CRX145S drive, cdrecord version 1.8, KDE 1.1.2. 00 04 01 00 00 Sense
Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is
in process of becoming ready) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd
finished after 0.002s timeout 40s Fixating time: 42.176s cdrecord: fifo
had 11562 puts and 11562 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11427
times full, min fill was 92%. Cdrecord 1.10a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling scsidev: '0,6,0' scsibus: 0 target:
6 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 2.1.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.4'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 4 Response Format: 2 Capabilities
: SYNC Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX145S ' Revision :
'1.0b' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc
CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Burn of CD number 4
failed. (s)kip CD, (q)uit program, or (r)etry? q
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