k3b Data DVD writing with GNOME?

[john wendel]

On 09/24/2009 06:48 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 12:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:27:40 Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> Does plain Data DVD file writing+verifying with k3b and GNOME still work
>>> on Fedora 11?
>>>
>>> I had "Verify written data" checked:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> Writing successfully completed.
>>>
>>> It then ejected the disc and closed the tray again immediately.
>>> The infamous and premature "No medium found" dialog popped up.
>>> I didn't touch it, because it would close after a few seconds
>>> when it would recognise the disc it just had reloaded.
>>>
>>> In the background, a Nautilus opened for the recognised disc.
>>> A disc icon appeared, too.
>>> k3b, however, did not proceed to verifying any files. It waited here:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Verifying written Data
>>> ---
>>> Verifying track 0
>>> 0%
>>>
>>>
>>> After 5 minutes waiting without any disc reader activity,
>>> I cancelled it.
>>> Does this work flawlessly with KDE.
>>> Is it a conflict with the default GNOME desktop?
>>>
>> The other thing I should have mentioned is that if Nautilus mounted the drive,
>> that would interfere.  You need to deny the mount.
>>
>> Anne
> k3b has always worked for me in Gnome but I have yet to use it in F11
> Although you get an Blank CD-R Disk icon on the screen , when I tried it
> the blank disk is not mounted. It is the CD/DVD creator that is
> producing the icon.But I agree that unmounting it would seem like a good
> idea but it is unclear how you would do it. Clicking on unmout volume in
> the action list you get does nothing and using unmount seems hard since
> there is no mount point listed when you run the mount command.

> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>

Maybe I'm dense, but how can a blank disk be mounted, since mounting 
requires a filesystem?  BTW, I run k3b under F11 with LXDE and it works 
fine. I suspect Gnome is doing something stupid.

John