K3b cannot burn a CD

[Austin Isler]

If that happens try making sure you dont have programs like KsCD running
in the background. With KsCD, it usually docks in kicker when you X it
out and not choose Quit. Sometimes you won't realize its still there.

Austin

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:33, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 05/22/2004 12:24 PM, ByteEnable wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have tried k3b on two different machines with two different CD writers.  K3b 
> >is unable to burn a CD correctly.
> >
> >On one machine it can never finish writing the pre track burn, but complains 
> >of buffer problem when it hasn't actually used the buffer yet.
> >
> >Other machine, k3b burns at speeds greater than I have specified, resulting in 
> >burn errors.  The drive is only rated at 2X burn, but k3b is burning at 4X 
> >even when I have specified to burn at 2X!
> >
> >Has anybody had any success with k3b on Fedora 2?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Byte
> >
> >  
> >
> I'm not on FC2 yet, sorry, but on FC1 I have an issue with burning under 
> k3b (under anything, actually) because kscd grabs the burner when I log 
> in and cdrecord can't lock it. Unless you're sure this isn't your 
> problem, try
> 
> ps ax | grep cd
> 
> and see if you get a response like
> 
> 12736 ?        S      0:06 /usr/bin/autorun -l --interval=1000 
> --cdplayer=/usr/bin/kscd
> 
> If you do, then
> 
> kill 12736
> 
> and try to burn with k3b again. Sorry if this is fixed under FC2, I lost 
> track of the list for a little while.
> 
> --Matt
>