[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2009-04-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
I'm developer of cdrskin and quite late with this comment, i fear. But for the records: Without seeing the original error message of cdrskin, i can only guess that the problem is some O_EXCL usage of the drive (by some automat). One can keep cdrskin from respecting such Linux specific locks by its

[Bug 1914587] Re: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el images

2021-02-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paride Legovini wrote: > see https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/900 where i see: - opts="$(xorriso -indev ${OLD_ISO} -report_el_torito as_mkisofs 2>/dev/null)" + opts="$(xorriso -indev ${OLD_ISO} -report_el_torito as_mkisofs)" Consider to reduce verbosity by xorriso command -repor

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > I'm going to > subscribe Thomas Schmitt, xorriso upstream, who knows enormously more than > I do about all this stuff. Well, firmware can always outsmart any preparation in an ISO. My personal expertise is restricted to ISO 9660 and ends when firm

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chris Guiver wrote: > Delay occurs regardless of ISO being written using mkusb, dd, or gnome- > disks.. Hmm. IIRC mkusb offers to unpack the ISO into a filesystem of the USB stick. If the problem survives that conversion, then it is far inside the GRUB equipment. It should be possible to mak

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho wrote: > Marking the first partition as bootable legacy BIOS: > - Plymouth --> 54 seconds. > - Desktop environment --> 1 minute 45 seconds Without converting to GPT ? That would be really strange and surely no solution for the gerneral public. (It is not allowed by GPT specs to

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lucap wrote: > If i look at the USB sticks first partition with gnome disks , edit > partition and tick the box that says Legacy BIOS bootable then the USB > stick no longer shows "cannot find grub_platform" and goes straight to > the grub menu , then it boots to a black screen with a blinking

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, just in case somebody wants to make experiments with changed grub.cfg, here are instructions how to create a modified ISO from an Ubuntu amd64 original (but not from a "powerpc" ISO): Set paths to the original ISO image and for the emerging ISO image: ORIG=ubuntu-21.04-desktop-amd64.iso

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho wrote: > I made the experiment you proposed modifying grub.cfg file. > [...] > So it seems that you find the cause of the problem. By luck and 14 years of xorriso development. :)) Can i talk you into a second test ? This time only disable the part in grub.cfg which evaluates th

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lucap wrote: > < MBR partition : 1 0x00 0xee1 5508391 > < MBR partition : 2 0x80 0x0001 > --- > > MBR partition : 1 0x00 0xee1 15649199 So gnome disks expanded the range of the protective MBR partition to n

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, regrettably the display of launchpad's website eats blanks. This mutilates my proposed grep 'GPT partition flags: 1' by condensing three blanks before "1" to a single blank. So i change the inspection proposal to xorriso -indev stdio:"$NEW" -report_system_area plain | \ grep 'GPT par

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lucap wrote: > gnome disks no longer says it's a GPT layout and > says the first partition is Linux (Bootable)(0x83) José Marinho wrote: > in this last experiment I see with Gnome disks that the usb drive with > the modified iso has a MBR partition table instead the GPT partition table > of t

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho: > Well, I try the first method (compiling xorriso) and removing the if > condition from grub.cfg keeping grub_platform command. The usb drive now has > a GPT partition table but unfortunately, the issue persists so, it seems > that the grub_platform thing is not the cause. Remov

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho wrote: > 4- [...] I assume that the usb drive shoud have an original ubuntu > 21.04 ISO burned. The "$STICK" in the setting of Lucap at comment #44 was additionally treaded with gnome disks: "edit partition and tick the box that says Legacy BIOS bootable". This yielded GPT flags

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho wrote: > GPT PMBR size mismatch (5505347 != 7907327) will be corrected by write. > ... > /dev/sdd1 1 7907327 7907327 3,8G ee GPT > /dev/sdd2 * 0 01 512B 0 Vacía Looks like fdisk reports to you what would be the result if you let i

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i uploaded a new development snapshot of GNU xorriso which can create a GPT similar to the result of Lucap's gnome disks run. cd "$HOME"/xorriso_dir wget http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.5.5.tar.gz tar xzf xorriso-1.5.5.tar.gz cd xorriso-1.5.5 ./configure --prefix=/usr

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho wrote: > changes only work at first boot [...] > This happened today with the new version of xorriso and yesterday with > "dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=16 of="$NEW" conv=notrunc seek=462" command. > [...] > the output of two xorriso commands BEFORE trying to boot from > the stick,

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lucap wrote: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility > Would the code be worth you looking through for any insight for the > legacy bios option? Seems not necessary. Your diff in comment #44 shows the few changes which gnome disks made for you. José Marinho's boot1.txt shows that

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the Ubuntu system really manipulates the installation stick's partition table if i choose to try out Ubuntu. It looks like i was involved as adviser when the addition of MBR partition 2 was introduced to "casper's persistent partition creation". See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it comes to me that while no single ISO can serve all firmwares, it would be possible that one casper can serve the original ISO and an ISO without MBR partition 2 alike. The trick would be to let casper memorize the 16 bytes 462 to 477 before it runs the partition editor, and to let it write

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-05-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, José Marinho wrote: > I can't believe it... it boots fine again but once, twice, three > times... and there is no MBR partition anywhere. Let me make up a theory: > - Burn on stick the iso that was builded with xorriso-1.5.5. > - Boot it for the first time --> Success. During this run of Ub

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-06-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, since the majority of machines seems to work with the current Ubuntu ISOs, it would be helpful to have manufacturer, model name, and firmware versions of machines where the ISOs cause long delays or fail. The problem does not sit in the recognition of boot entry points by the firmware but occ

[Bug 1922342] Re: HIrsute live session takes ages to boot on BIOS systems

2021-06-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I noted Thomas (scdbackup) asked for firmware details The motivation is to find enough affected hardware so that the delay can be reproduced by developers. Obviously it did not happen with the regular testing machines. So my request/proposal was for the general public: Tell which machines

[Bug 1758949] Re: brasero exited on a libisofs error

2018-03-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, regrettably there is no debugging facility in libisofs which one could enable without modifying Brasero. Further the Joliet mangler of libisofs does not produce messages even if i enable DEBUG verbosity when it runs underneath xorriso. The problem with libisofs is only that it does not accept

[Bug 1761808] Re: optical drive doesn't open in Lubuntu 18.04

2018-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, what happens if you perform one of these shell commands: eject /dev/sr0 xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -eject all In case of failure please report all error messages of the programs. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1761808] Re: optical drive doesn't open in Lubuntu 18.04

2018-04-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > So, the first command [program "eject"]did work; This proves that it is not a problem of the drive. Afaik, it is quite usual that contemporary Linux kernels forget to unlock the drive tray. (I did not yet find the exact reason in my oldish kernel and thus cannot tell whether it has been fix

[Bug 1761808] Re: optical drive doesn't open in Lubuntu 18.04

2018-04-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, yes, this all looks like the respective desktops need to bind the key to some more or less smart program which either ejects unconditionally or determines the tray state and sends the appropriate command to load or eject it. Command eject -T /dev/sr0 should be a smart toggler between ope

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the problem looks like it is triggered by growisofs' habit to explicitely set the layer break position. See its message /dev/dvdrw: splitting layers at 2009552 blocks and its error message 4115562496/8231090176 (50.0%) @0.0x, remaining 16:15 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0% :-[ WRITE@LBA=1ea9d0h f

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this time the layer break position was not set by growisofs. Now i wonder what is the difference between the commands sent by growisofs and libburn underneath xorriso. Looking at the source code of growisofs it seems that no command RESERVE TRACK is sent for DVD+R DL. libburn sends it if it d

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > With -tao option, xorrecord has no trouble at all. I am out of ideas, for now. > Is there an easy way to dump the raw commands before the one that failed? I am not aware whether the Linux kernel has a logging facility for ioctl(SG_IO). That's the system call by which we perform the SCSI c

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Urm. The last stement should have been: "... i will probably _not_ get to doing it soon." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1757030 Title: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual la

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, attached is a patch which enables SCSI logging to stderr in dvd+rw-tools. It is based on dvd+rw-tools-7.1.tar.gz (MD5 8acb3c885c87f6838704a0025e435871). There is no run-time control for this feature yet. Define or undefine macro Libburnish_scsi_log_to_stderR and run "make" to enable or disabl

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
... and there is a copy+paste error with {{{ GET CONFIGURATION 46 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 From drive: 8b 00 00 00 9c 00 00 00 00 From drive: 8b 00 00 00 9c 00 00 00 00 8 ms }}} Of course, the drive replied only once. -- You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 1757030] Re: Lite-On DS8A1H Slimline fails to record dual layer DVD+R

2018-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Is there a way to place a DVD burner into simulation mode as with CD > recording so as to test the commands without wasting the disc? Not with DVD+R and DVD+R DL, i fear. Only DVD-R and unformatted DVD-RW can simulate. > nodao.log Now that's a short one. It can hardly be that growisofs i

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, so for now -partition_offset 16 is not to blame ? The only tangible report was back in 2011 about a Macbook Pro https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2011/04/msg00029.html with decisive test in https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2011/04/msg00060.html and (deplorable) success report in http

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, has it already been tested whether a grub-mkrescue ISO boots to a GRUB prompt ? To try it, install grub-common grub-pc-bin grub-efi-amd64-bin run mkdir minimal touch minimal/empty-file.txt grub-mkrescue -o output.iso minimal and use output.iso like groovy-desktop-amd64.iso. No me

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 3. The Dell boots to the grub prompt both in BIOS mode and UEFI mode. > Success :-) What's next :-P You could try a GPT partitioned groovy.iso. In the hope that the automat knows best: test -f test.iso && rm test.iso xorriso \ -indev groovy-desktop-amd64.iso \ -outdev test.is

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Leó Kolbeinsson wrote: > Booting in minimal device on Lenovo V14 fails in all modes [...] > Tested on Acer machine - media recognized and boots to grub prompt in all > modes/BIOS/UEFI/UEFI+secure boot. I assume that this was the grub-mkrescue ISO. Right ? It is a bit a surprise that Secure B

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > $ xorriso \ > -indev groovy-desktop-amd64.iso \ > ... > -boot_image any replay \ > ... > xorriso : NOTE : No proposals available for boot related commands This means that xorriso did not recognize any boot equipment in groovy-desktop-amd64.iso . > Drive current: -indev 'gr

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > There was a problem with permissions. Hm. I should make xorriso report this. No read permission should not count as blank pseudo-medium. What kind of permission was missing and which change fixed it ? > This test.iso file modified according to comment #181, when cloned, > makes USB drive

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > on the V14IIL Lenovo in > all 3 modes- Legacy BIOS,UEFI,and UEFI+secure boot- success rate 100%. > 2. mkusb cloning iso file > 3. rufus in Windows 10 (dd mode) So now it looks like valid GPT does the trick for Ubuntu ISOs on Lenovo. There remain riddles: Why does the grub-mkrescue ISO not

[Bug 1886148] Re: failure to boot groovy daily

2020-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Thinking it through, I am happy for us to make this change from MBR to > GPT. Me not so much. GPT has that backup at the end of the device. But when an image is made, the size of the storage device is not known. So after putting (cloning) the image onto the USB stick, the backup GPT is misp

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, so the world might begin to split into incompatible camps. New Lenovos versus old HPs. Debian still has the "mac" amd64 ISOs which simply have no EFI equipment in order to please some old Apple machines: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ But this GPT allergy would h

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > So I am sure that we have identified the problem. There is still the possibility that only a boot flag is missed by the firmware. So please test also an ISO made by ... -boot_image any replay \ -boot_image any appended_part_as=gpt \ -boot_image any mbr_force_bootable=on If

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > You are a wizard Thomas, I lurk at boot loader mailing lists since more than a decade. But as sysadmin i am lame enough to not knowing how to make ASUS ProWS C246-ACE EFI firmware 1401 offer me any external storage device for booting, or how to disable its Secure Boot setting. I will have

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this is a one-time tangent about the xorriso replay run which i advised in comment #10. I found at least the trigger of the xorriso replay flaw about the size values in ISO 9660 superblock, protective MBR, and GPT header block. It is the multi-session emulation for overwritable media which is

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > xorriso \ > ... > -outdev test_mbr.iso \ > ... > -boot_image any appended_part_as=gpt \ > ... > HOWEVER it did NOT boot on > hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290) > hp dc7900 (c2d-e8400, 4gb, intel 4 series integrated i915) The only flaw i see is that the ISO's name "tes

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sudodus wrote: > I also tested the tweak in comment #15 on the current Ubuntu Groovy iso file. > When cloned the USB drive fails to boot the Lenovo V130, > ... > $ sudo gdisk test_mbr.iso > MBR: MBR only Obviously the production of "test_mbr.iso" did what the file name says and made a MBR p

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i confirm that groovy-desktop-amd64.iso1 1 5740827 5740827 2.8G ee GPT groovy-desktop-amd64.iso2 *0 0 1 512B 0 Empty is the indication that the --mbr-force-bootable hack is applied. A nearly non-existend MBR partition not overlapping the partition of type

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i now am boss of my mainboard ASUS ProWS C246-ACE EFI firmware 1401, at least as long i do not want to disable Secure Boot. The hardware provider was of not of help with USB sticks, but remembers to have inserted Debian 10.4.0 netinst on CD-RW when SSD and HDD were still without bootable syste

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chris Guiver (guiverc) wrote: > (1) wiped thumb-drive > (2) `mkusb-plug groovy-desktop-amd64.iso` (option N or non-persistent > was selected) Is (2) equivalent to a plain copy by dd or cp ? > I booted again (still same thumb-drive) without issue on > - hp dc7700 > and booted successfully on

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sudidus wrote: > Later on, in the HH series, you can revert back from 'nopersistent' and > let the system create an ext4 partition again (in a USB drive behind the > image of the iso file), So the software in the ISO fiddles with the USB stick partitioning ? That would be a prime suspect for

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Please tell me which partition editor commands to run One might need superuser autority for reading the device file: device=/dev/sdd /sbin/fdisk -l "$device" xorriso -indev stdio:"$device" -report_system_area plain Have a nice day :) Thomas -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

2020-10-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote: > I've manually run through the steps of casper's persistent partition > creation [...] > it also "fixes" the protective MBR, removing the empty bootable partition. That explains why the machines which demand the boot flag boot exactly once. sudodus (nio-wiklun

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i understand from the category "brasero package" that you inspect the drive by Brasero. Which burn backend is it using (cdrecord, wodim, libburn ) ? What kind of medium did you try (CD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, BD-R, ...) ? Which task of Brasero do you want to perform (Audio project, Data proj

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
I forgot to ask for putting in the desired medium before performing xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1896804 Title: CD/DVD drive detected as read only,

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Sense Key 6 "Drive event", ASC 28 ASCQ 81. This SCSI error reply is not listed in SCSI specs SPC or MMC or in the summary of T10 committee https://www.t10.org/lists/asc-num.htm#ASC_28 So the drive's firmware programmers were overly creative. If it was ASCQ 0 or 2, then libburn would tol

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
The line with the absolute address was meant to be: /home/chris/xorriso/xorriso-1.5.3/xorriso/xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1896804 Title: CD/DVD dri

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > libburn : SORRY : Asynchronous SCSI error on waiting after START UNIT > (+ LOAD) [6 28 81] Drive event. Unknown ASCQ with drive event ASC 28. Grr. A higher level intervened. In line 198 of file ~/xorriso/xorriso-1.5.3/libburn/spc.c there is if (key == 0x6 && as

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, well, at least we got over the strange error code. > libburn : SORRY : Timeout exceed (3 ms). Retry canceled. > libburn : SORRY : Command: READ DISC INFORMATION #63,[2 04 00] : 51 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 00 : dxfer_len= 34 The command READ DISC INFORMATION was retried 63 times. The la

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Correction: The single command READ DISC INFORMATION probably did not timeout, but was repeated with intermediate waiting until 30 seconds had elapsed. So the drive probably reacts swiftly but always says that it is not yet ready. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 1896804] Re: CD/DVD drive detected as read only, command line and GUI programs

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sorry for your drive. But good for Linux burn programs that MS-Windows does not know something essential about drive error messages which we Linuxers don't know. > the srange this is that if you use the Disks program in utilities. That's probably a message from the kernel via systemd and ls

[Bug 1895131] Re: Groovy Desktop *BREAKS* the most common method of creating UEFI bootable drives for Ubuntu installation

2020-10-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cd-boot-images-amd64/7 Oh. This explains why there is still an invalid GPT in http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/groovy-desktop-amd64.iso which i downloaded 2 days ago. Above change has at its end: + echo 'xorriso -as mkisofs [...]

[Bug 1914587] Re: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el images

2021-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > xorriso : FAILURE : Image size 409295092s exceeds free space on media 127778488s So you already found out that the ISO would contain 409295092s = 409295092 * 2048 bytes ~= 781 GiB and spotted this option with its arguments: > -append_partition 4 0x8 --interval:local_fs:1718121313d- 3352

[Bug 1914587] Re: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el images

2021-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
I wrote: > "d" is index 512 (disk block). That was meant as "d" is indeed 512 (disk block). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1914587 Title: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el i

[Bug 1914587] Re: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el images

2021-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 1. download [2] > 2. xorriso -indev focal-live-server-ppc64el.iso -report_el_torito as_mkisofs The adventure moves to the question how this ISO got its partition table. $ xorriso -indev focal-live-server-ppc64el.iso -report_system_area plain ... ISO image size/512 : 2440600 ... M

[Bug 1914587] Re: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el images

2021-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forgot to propose that make-edge-iso.sh should look in stderr of the "xorriso -report_el_torito as_mkisofs" run for this message: xorriso : SORRY : Cannot make proposal to produce APM of loaded image and/or that it should check for the exit value of the xorriso run, which in this case

[Bug 1914587] Re: make-edge-iso.sh fails on focal/ppc64el images

2021-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > /usr/bin/mkisofs -r [...] If xorriso shall be used, then the following HFS-specific options need to be omitted: --netatalk -hfs -probe -map /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/debian-cd/data/hfs.map -part -no-desktop -hfs-bless CD1/install -hfs-volid Ubuntu-Server_PPC64EL_focal Furthe

[Bug 1832922] Re: cannot use growisofs to write iso image

2019-06-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this looks as if the '=' in /dev/sr0=ubuntu-16.04.6-desktop-amd64.iso is interpreted by the shell parser as whitespace. I get the message about genisoimage only if i do growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 ubuntu-16.04.6-desktop-i386.iso Then it says About to execute 'genisoimage

[Bug 1832922] Re: cannot use growisofs to write iso image

2019-06-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i made experiments with shell variable IFS which can declare '=' to be white space. When i do echo -n x"$IFS"x | od -c i get 000 x \t \n x 005 (The 'x' are for better recognizing the gaps of blank characters.) Contrary to my expectation, the shell loop "for" does n

[Bug 1764096] Re: Brasero can't burn DVD because of permissions issue

2018-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the first message about lack of permissions is common and should be harmless. The failure happens possibly with the attempt to get 16 MiB of memory via call mmap(2). But it is not obvious why this only succeeds if you are superuser. So this might too be a red herring and the actual reason for

[Bug 397412] Re: brasero fails when burning DVD

2017-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the initial error report of 2009 is probably due to a hardware problem in the computers bus controller, or the cabling, or the drive's bus controller. > BraseroWodim stderr: CDB: 2A 00 00 01 6C 7E 00 00 1F 00 > ... > BraseroWodim stderr: Sense Key: 0x0 No Additional Sense, Segment 11 > ... >

[Bug 1264804] Re: Cannot blank DVD-RW

2013-12-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the drive tells libburn that the medium is not a DVD-RW but a DVD+R. xorriso forwards this info: > Media current: DVD+R > Media status : is written , is closed The perception of media type stems from "00 1b" in the reply to the GET CONFIGURATION command > GET CONFIGURATION > 46 00 00 00 00

[Bug 1317125] Re: Xfburn crashes when trying to add files to data composition on Lubuntu 14.04

2014-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this bug is also discussed at the german Ubuntu forum and brought to the attention of the upstream programmer of xfburn. It appears as if it was depending on particular installation environment. We can believe that the author tested this use case before release. I myself worked with it on

[Bug 1320203] Re: cannot burn dvd from iso

2014-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > something to the effect that beyond the first 2 KB the disk is not empty Original message texts may help to find out what's wrong. Currently it looks like the burn programs get no error indication from the drive, despite it does not burn the medium properly. Probably you used my libburn u

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2016-06-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, all looks well for a run with 8x nominal speed and Defect Management enabled. You may try to get higher speed by omitting cdrskin option blank=format_if_needed or by using option stream_recording=on with BD-R media which are already formatted or with BD-RE media (which will get formatted

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2016-06-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I hope I'd followed your recommendation correctly. The xorriso command looks ok. If you do not plan to produce and burn add-on ISO sessions you may omit option -multi. > I burnt a second copy of each ISO, which should > give me a high probability of full recovery using gddrescue, if the ti

[Bug 1654392] Re: growisofs -speed parameter has no effect

2017-02-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, congrats to the success. I have to stress, though, that cdrskin and xorriso are not forks of cdrecord or growisofs, but applications of libburn, an independent implementation of an SCSI/MMC driver in userspace. In the end it depends on what the drive's firmware makes out of the SCSI command

[Bug 1356528] Re: k3b dvd burning crashes with growisofs and -use-the-force-luke=dao: option

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this might be the same growisofs bug as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794868 where a remedy patch was tested by a user but not yet applied to the Debian package of dvd+rw-tools. --- Remedy for the wrong last

[Bug 1654392] Re: growisofs -speed parameter has no effect

2017-01-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, did you already try -speed=1 in order to get the lowest possible speed ? - The growisofs function to set the speed set_speed_B6h in https://sources.debian.net/src/dvd%2Brw-tools/7.1-11.1/growisofs_mmc.cpp/#L1090 is

[Bug 1654778] Re: growisofs: INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT error with DVD-Rs

2017-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this looks like a bad relationship between drive and medium. OPC (Optimum Power Calibration) is preparation stage of burning were the drive makes experiments about the laser settings. The media have an especially reserved data area for that. Those experiments did not yield a satisfying resul

[Bug 1654778] Re: growisofs: INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT error with DVD-Rs

2017-01-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, yes, DVD-R and DVD+RW are treated quite differently by the drives. The former is a sequential multi-session medium, the latter is a random-access read-write medium. Firmware procedures inside the drive differ. The laser used is the same, afaik. But the dye on the media is quite surely not the

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, thanks for taking action. I was not aware of being authorized to manage Ubuntu bugs. Will practice on a few other outdated ones which one can reach from the Debian package tracker. (Fresh upstream versions are available of libburn, libisofs, libisoburn.) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- You r

[Bug 1062737] Re: hybrid images do not include a valid GPT

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i closed this bug report because the libisofs fix is released since nearly four years. Summary of remaining issue: The isohybrid layout as defined for ISOLINUX bootable ISO 9660 images regularly works by the MBR partition of type 0xef, not by the GPT partition which carries the type UUID of

[Bug 916820] Re: package libisofs6 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: Kein Paket namens »libisofs6« ist installiert, kann nicht konfigurieren

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i close this bug because the affected Ubuntu release is outdated meanwhile. After all this looks like a glitch of the local package management system, not like a libisofs problem. Have a nice day :) Thomas ** Changed in: libisofs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received th

[Bug 1216426] Re: package libisofs6 1.2.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 2

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, my apologies to the maintainers of apt for moving this old bug report to their package. I feel not entitled to close it for being outdated. The problem is much more about apt-get than about libisofs (of which i am upstream developer and sponsored Debian uploader). If the libisofs package of a

[Bug 1216426] Re: package libisofs6 1.2.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 2

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, not that i would want to quarrel, nevertheless i want to clarify. The bug should not have been attributed to libisofs in the first place. Nobody cared to correct this misattribution in a timely manner. Today i got encouraged to take care of old Ubuntu bugs attributed to the packages where i a

[Bug 1605810] Re: xfburn crashes while burning

2016-07-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, there were crashes when composing the file set. During burn they are not commonly known. Can you give any tangible information ? Messages ? System log extract from the time when the crash happened ? Can you successfully burn using other libburn based programs, like xorriso or cdrskin ? If y

[Bug 1113679] Re: Close session failed when burning 25gb blu-ray disc

2016-05-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am somewhat confused. The fix is part of Debian's packaging https://sources.debian.net/src/dvd%2Brw-tools/7.1-11/debian/patches/10-blue-ray-bug713016.patch/ (It is theoretically well understood and clearly correct.) So why can't it stay in Ubuntu ? -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 1598868] Re: growisofs bug

2016-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > growisofs > ... > :-[ WRITE@LBA=220h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error Regrettably it does not tell the additional info numbers ASC and ASCQ. But SK=3 means that the drive cannot write to the medium because of unexpected problems. I.e. not because the DVD would not be writa

[Bug 1598868] Re: growisofs bug

2016-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, growisofs wrote: > :-[ WRITE@LBA=10h failed with SK=5h/INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE]: Invalid > argument LBA=10h means that the second WRITE command yielded a failure message from the drive. The accusation is strange. I have seen this only with cdrecord yet, when the Linux kernel reported (fal

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2016-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, can we close this bug as either: - not reproducible under proper hardware conditions, - or as caused by insufficient data source bandwidth ? Have a nice day :) Thomas -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2016-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Njorl wrote: > Any possibility for making libburn more idiot-proof? If the log had > been able to decompose how the burn speed was determined, I might have > managed to check up on the bottleneck - and have avoided this drain on > your time. First i would have to make myself idiot-proof. I

[Bug 1571684] Re: libisoburn fails to build on powerpc

2016-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i downloaded libisoburn_1.4.2-4ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz and now look at debian/patches/build-system.patch . What is the motivation for removing "--silent" from libtool ? ---

[Bug 1571684] Re: libisoburn fails to build on powerpc

2016-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Looks like you found a solution for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320305 on Fedora s390. By running ./configure --disable-versioned-libs i could keep the tests in libisoburn-1.4.2/releng/auto_isocontent from crashing at the end of the xorriso runs. ** Bug watch added: Red Ha

[Bug 1571684] Re: libisoburn fails to build on powerpc

2016-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
> what is the motivation to keep it? ;) Inherited autotools code. I change it only if i see a reason. > I don't understand your second question. When i test whether the option is supported by the linker, i do this by applying it to a non-library binary. AC_TRY_LINK() creates a tiny C program an

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2015-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, libburn obviously tries to tell the drive the desired speed. But the drive decides to work much slower, despite promising speeds up to 12x BD with the given BD-R. A possible reason could be Defect Management which is caused by the cdrskin option blank=format_if_needed. It checkreads the wri

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2015-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forgot to ask: How is the read speed with this drive ? Does it deliver dozens of MB per second ? Do you get better write speeds with DVD media ? (A DVD+RW at 4x DVD speed should be 5 times as fast as the write speed you observe with BD-R.) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- You received this

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2015-05-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, everything points towards Defect Management which seems to be extremely slow with the given drive and BD-R media. It normally slows down writing by a factor of 2 or 3 but not by 10 or 20. So the option stream_recording=on of cdrskin and xorrecord is worth a try with the next BD-R you burn.

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, some corrections to my previous mail: i wrote: > growisofs always formats growisofs formats BD-R by default but also can keep them unformatted if its undocumented option -use-the-force-luke=spare=none is used and the medium is not yet formatted. In this case it is supposed to burn with f

[Bug 1458230] Re: libburn imposing 0.2x BD-R burn (5-6 hours)

2015-05-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > If my experience is > similar, in XP, I will buy a different brand of BD-R, and, if that makes > little difference, try to reject the drive. I am curious about the outcome. Just for the records resp. future use: Formatting BD-R and using it with Defect Management: growisofs -Z /dev/s

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