Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
Friends,
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I'm having trouble with cdrecord when recording audio CD's. During the write process, a buffer underrun will occur and cdrecord will stop and report the error. This typically happens around the 5th track. When I try again, it happens almost immediately. Further, my hard drive continuously cranks away and they system becomes hardly useable. A 'halt -p' takes about 30 minutes to completely shut down the computer... and that's the only way I've found to stop it. Upon review, after the first failure the system becomes sluggish. After the second failure it becomes unusable.
This doesn't appear to happen when recording data disks. This happened with several brand new CD-R disks (which are now coasters). This happens at 1x, 4x, and 8x speed. Happens in -DAO and -TAO. This happens even in -dummy mode. Happens when su'ed to root... happens when logged in as root. I first noticed it when running K3B... but I've since isolated it as a cdrecord problem.
Questions: Is this happening to anyone else? STFW yields nothing. Is it me, or is it a bug? If a bug in cdrecord -- how do I report it when the Fedora distribution has "altered" it to add "DVD" and so the program spits out the disclaimer "do not notify the author of problems with this version?"
I just tried to burn an audio cd with k3b for the first time since upgrading cdrecord and k3b. After burning the cd, I went to listen to it, and it was just noise. I tried again, and had the same symptoms you had: It wrote for a while, then hung. My system was very slow, and the disk access light was on constantly. I was able to still run programs, but they were very, very slow. Restarting X did not help. Rebooting did. I have this is my /var/log/messages:
Nov 11 22:43:32 quicksilver kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 Nov 11 22:43:52 quicksilver kernel: DMA per-cpu: Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: Normal per-cpu: Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: Free pages: 4156kB (0kB HighMem) Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: Active:1688 inactive:12572 dirty:1 writeback:10501 unstable:0 free:1039 slab:3495 mapped:2057 pagetables:1005 Nov 11 22:43:53 quicksilver kernel: DMA free:2028kB min:12kB low:24kB high:36kB active:756kB inactive:168kB present:16384kB Nov 11 22:44:30 quicksilver kernel: protections[]: 6 508 508 Nov 11 22:45:37 quicksilver kernel: Normal free:2128kB min:1004kB low:2008kB high:3012kB active:5996kB inactive:50120kB present:1032128kB Nov 11 22:47:07 quicksilver kernel: protections[]: 0 502 502 Nov 11 22:47:08 quicksilver kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB Nov 11 22:47:08 quicksilver kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Nov 11 22:47:09 quicksilver kernel: DMA: 1*4kB 7*8kB 29*16kB 25*32kB 9*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2028kB Nov 11 22:47:10 quicksilver kernel: Normal: 32*4kB 0*8kB 3*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2128kB Nov 11 22:47:10 quicksilver kernel: HighMem: empty Nov 11 22:47:11 quicksilver kernel: Swap cache: add 1250133, delete 1238940, find 183044/383177, race 0+2 Nov 11 22:47:11 quicksilver kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 8208 (evolution). Nov 11 22:47:12 quicksilver kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd2
which goes on and on and keeps killing processes (killing everything that was running).
I just tried to burn an iso image with cdrecord, and it worked fine.