K3B burning problem

[John Pilkington]

On 04/12/11 06:38, david walcroft wrote:
> On 12/04/2011 02:33 PM, Craig White wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 14:19 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>> I can not burn an ISO,there are no error messages,it recognizes a medium
>>> and completes it's md5sum and stops.It also cannot format and erase.This
>>> is on an FC16 i686 install.
>>> Any ideas.
>> ----
>> Places to check for errors...
>>
>> (as root)
>> dmesg
>> /var/log/messages
>>
>> as user... open a virtual console (konsole in KDE - terminal in Gnome),
>> start k3b simply by typing 'k3b' and pressing enter. If there are
>> errors, they should be printed to standard out (the virtual console).
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
> I have looked in 'dmesg' and '/var/log/messages',there are no error
> messages.
> I tried the remove and reinstall trick but nothing changed.
>
> Thanks   david

I had a problem recently with k3b on a system that had gone through a 
couple of 'preupgrade' cycles.  It was apparently using stale pointers 
to the audio notification files, but AIUI it also showed problems in Qt.
Are you passing a full file path in the 'Image to Burn' window?

Bug references:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284966

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749213

k3b burns isos fine for me on f14

John P