K3b burning problems

I have been receiving K3b burning problems for the last two weeks. When I burn a m3u playlist generated from Banshee I receive an error about not having permission, but I believe I’ve enabled all the permissions I know how.

Just now I attempted to burn a downloaded ISO and received an error even though I think the filesystem may have built correctly:

cdrecord returned an unknown error (code 254).
Sometimes using TAO writing mode solves this issue.

here’s my debug report: SUSE Paste

Thank you for any help or mentioning anything to let me know where else to go with this!

openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
KDE 4.6.5
Linux 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop i686

kahu wrote:

> here’s my debug report: ‘SUSE Paste’
> (http://paste.opensuse.org/42035001)
>
> Thank you for any help or mentioning anything to let me know where else
> to go with this!
>

I’m no expert on the matter, but this doesn’t seems right:

Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.

Have you tried disks from a different brand?

Chris Maaskant

On 07/06/2011 07:36 AM, kahu wrote:
>
> I have been receiving K3b burning problems for the last two weeks.

what happened, what changed before the new problem started happening two
weeks ago?

> I burn a m3u playlist generated from Banshee I receive an error about
> not having permission, but I believe I’ve enabled all the permissions I
> know how.

in what way(s), using what tool(s), did you change what permission(s)?


DD
-Caveat-Hardware-Software-

within K3b there is a menu for "Setting System Permissions. I’ve used “users” as the burning group and set all the sub-programs listed to include the users group.

Here’s another debugging output from an attempt to burn an m3u file referencing mp3 files:

Devices
-----------------------
HL-DT-ST DVD-RW_GSA-H41N RA00 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [TAO, Restricted Overwrite] %7]

System
-----------------------
K3b Version: 2.0.2
KDE Version: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) "release 8"
QT Version:  4.7.3
Kernel:      2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop

Used versions
-----------------------
cdrecord: 1.1.10

cdrecord
-----------------------
scsidev: '/dev/sr0'
devname: '/dev/sr0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.10
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identification : 'DVD-RW_GSA-H41N '
Revision       : 'RA00'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite) 
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) 
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) 
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL) 
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) 
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) (current)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) 
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) 
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk) 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1053696 = 1029 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 17820 kB/s 101x CD 12x DVD
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Speed set to 7057 KB/s
pregap1: -1
Track 01: audio   35 MB (03:30.42) no preemp swab copy
Track 02: audio   48 MB (04:46.82) no preemp swab copy
Track 03: audio   25 MB (02:31.57) no preemp swab copy
Track 04: audio   33 MB (03:18.88) no preemp swab copy
Track 05: audio   37 MB (03:44.58) no preemp swab copy
Track 06: audio   43 MB (04:18.09) no preemp swab copy
Track 07: audio   28 MB (02:48.10) no preemp swab copy
Track 08: audio   44 MB (04:27.26) no preemp swab copy
Track 09: audio   37 MB (03:45.60) no preemp swab copy
Track 10: audio   49 MB (04:52.48) no preemp swab copy
Track 11: audio   26 MB (02:39.72) no preemp swab copy
Track 12: audio   35 MB (03:30.29) no preemp swab copy
Track 13: audio   42 MB (04:15.48) no preemp swab copy
Track 14: audio   34 MB (03:22.34) no preemp swab copy
Track 15: audio   20 MB (02:03.82) no preemp swab copy
Track 16: audio   31 MB (03:05.76) no preemp swab copy
Total size:      580 MB (57:31.26) = 258845 sectors
Lout start:      580 MB (57:33/20) = 258845 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -12369 (97:17/06)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 101004
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed  40.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in    2 seconds.
   1 seconds.
   0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:    0 of   35 MB written.
Track 01:    1 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   0.8x.
Track 01:    2 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  21.1x.
Track 01:    3 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.0x.
Track 01:    4 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  21.8x.
Track 01:    5 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  22.7x.
Track 01:    6 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  21.9x.
Track 01:    7 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  22.9x.
Track 01:    8 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.0x.
Track 01:    9 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  22.9x.
Track 01:   10 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.1x.
Track 01:   11 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.8x.
Track 01:   12 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  22.4x.
Track 01:   13 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.9x.
Track 01:   14 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.3x.
Track 01:   15 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.2x.
Track 01:   16 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.4x.
Track 01:   17 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.3x.
Track 01:   18 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.5x.
Track 01:   19 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  23.4x.
Track 01:   20 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.5x.
Track 01:   21 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.2x.
Track 01:   22 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  22.8x.
Track 01:   23 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.2x.
Track 01:   24 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.7x.
Track 01:   25 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.6x.
Track 01:   26 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  22.8x.
Track 01:   27 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  23.7x.
Track 01:   28 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  22.8x.
Track 01:   29 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf 100%]  23.7x.
Track 01:   30 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  22.9x.
Track 01:   31 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  23.6x.
Track 01:   32 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  23.2x.
Track 01:   33 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.6x.
Track 01:   34 of   35 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  23.0x.
Track 01:   35 of   35 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.0x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 37119264/37119264 (15782 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 15934
Track 02:    0 of   48 MB written.
Track 02:    1 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   8.9x.
Track 02:    2 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  98%]  24.0x.
Track 02:    3 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.5x.
Track 02:    4 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  23.8x.
Track 02:    5 of   48 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  24.8x.
Track 02:    6 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  98%]  23.9x.
Track 02:    7 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.0x.
Track 02:    8 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.0x.
Track 02:    9 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  25.0x.
Track 02:   10 of   48 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  24.0x.
Track 02:   11 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.8x.
Track 02:   12 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  24.4x.
Track 02:   13 of   48 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  24.9x.
Track 02:   14 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.2x.
Track 02:   15 of   48 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  25.2x.
Track 02:   16 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.3x.
Track 02:   17 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.2x.
Track 02:   18 of   48 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  99%]  24.4x.
Track 02:   19 of   48 MB written (fifo  98%) [buf  98%]  25.3x.
Track 02:   20 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]   5.9x.
Track 02:   21 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.1x.
Track 02:   22 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]  24.7x.
Track 02:   23 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.2x.
Track 02:   24 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.6x.
Track 02:   25 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.5x.
Track 02:   26 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  24.6x.
Track 02:   27 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.6x.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 6E 71 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 72 0B 00 00 00 00 00 0E 09 0C 00 00 00 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x0 No Additional Sense, Segment 11
Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x02 (end-of-partition/medium detected) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 40.291s timeout 40s
/usr/bin/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 29021328 bytes
Writing  time:   76.675s
Average write speed  45.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 98%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   16.412s
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo had 1106 puts and 1043 gets.
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 720 times full, min fill was 78%.

cdrecord command:
-----------------------
/usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=40 -tao driveropts=burnfree -useinfo -audio /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_01.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_02.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_03.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_04.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_05.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_06.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_07.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_08.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_09.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_10.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_11.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_12.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_13.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_14.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_15.inf /tmp/kde-jandkmeidal/k3b_audio_0_16.inf

I’m not sure what changed. I know K3b was included as a regular package update, but that’s all I know.

On 07/06/2011 04:36 PM, kahu wrote:
>
> Here’s another debugging output from an attempt to burn an m3u file
> referencing mp3 files:

first: i’m not a real guru…
second: i have no idea what a m3u file is

third, the next few lines would cause me to rush out and buy some better
media–that is to say, that not all disks are of the same quality…some
are real trash and you can expect both write and read errors:

> Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
> Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
> The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
> The information for this media may not be correct.

then, this says there was a write error, but i can’t see why and i can’t
see that it has anything to do with permissions:

> /usr/bin/wodim: A write error occured.
> /usr/bin/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
> write track data: error after 29021328 bytes

so, there are lots of things that can go wrong:

  1. the burning head may be slightly out of alignment (rough handled?)

  2. the disk may have manufacturing errors and can’t possibly record
    correctly (try and high quality disk)

  3. the burning lens may be dirty (smokers in the house?)

  4. you said this started two weeks ago: what preceded the problem? (an
    update to k3b, a new kernel, what?)

  5. or, the disk burner may just have served as long as it could–they do
    not last forever…my experience is that they will last about 1.5 to 2
    years of normal use…which is enough, when you consider that the
    seller probably gave you a six month or one year warranty!!

or, maybe you just need to change the writing mode (like it said in the
error message of your first post)

or, maybe a real guru will come along and tell you what you need to
do…sorry i can’t help more…


DD
-Caveat-Hardware-Software-

kahu wrote:

> Speed set to 7057 KB/s
>
This is something around 6x DVD writing speed, did you also try to write at
a slower speed? It can easily be that k3b recognises the media as something
better than it really is.


PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram

martin_helm wrote:

> kahu wrote:
>
>> Speed set to 7057 KB/s
>>
> This is something around 6x DVD writing speed, did you also try to write
> at
> a slower speed? It can easily be that k3b recognises the media as
> something better than it really is.
>
Sorry that is about a CD, but the same argument applies, burn it not with
48x or what you have set, reduce the speed to let’s say 16x or even slower
just to check if that is the problem.


PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram

kahu wrote:

>
> I’m not sure what changed. I know K3b was included as a regular package
> update, but that’s all I know.
>
Check the output of


rpm -qa --last | grep k3b

to see when the last update happened.


PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram

How about this little tidbit from the error code:

 Track 02:   27 of   48 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  25.6x.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 6E 71 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 72 0B 00 00 00 00 00 0E 09 0C 00 00 00 02 00 00
Sense Key: 0x0 No Additional Sense, Segment 11
Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x02 (end-of-partition/medium detected) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 40.291s timeout 40s
/usr/bin/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.

Especially this piece:

 Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x02 (end-of-partition/medium detected) Fru 0x0 

Seems to me like it’s finding the end of the cd before the actual end of the cd.
Same thing can be seen from your Suse Paste output except it got further into the writing.
Have you tried a different cd brand?

Take Care,

Ian

here’s my output:

~> rpm -qa --last | grep k3b
k3b-codecs-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2                    Fri 24 Jun 2011 05:18:32 PM PDT
k3b-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2                           Fri 24 Jun 2011 05:18:13 PM PDT

On 07/06/2011 10:36 PM, kahu wrote:
>
> k3b-codecs-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2 Fri 24 Jun 2011 05:18:32 PM PDT
> k3b-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2 Fri 24 Jun 2011 05:18:13 PM PDT

apparently you are allowing kpackagekit to push in whatever updates it
says you ‘need’…

and, when you do that…well, imo packagekit is broken and should not
be allowed to update or touch anything

i’m running kde 4.6.0 and k3b 2.0.2-10.1 without the problems you are
having…

i’m not saying the problem is neither low quality disks or a drive
problem…just that since it seems your problem began which the above
‘update’ that just might be the problem…

i think i would backlevel as my next attempt to regain the ability to
burn disks…

ymmv (by the way, i used YaST to delete kpackagekit and use only YaST
Online Update for package management update functions…)


DD
-Caveat-Hardware-Software-

kahu wrote:

>
> here’s my output:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> ~> rpm -qa --last | grep k3b
> k3b-codecs-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2 Fri 24 Jun 2011 05:18:32
> PM PDT
> k3b-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2 Fri 24 Jun 2011 05:18:13
> PM PDT
> --------------------
>
The intersting question can only be answered by you not by us: Was this the
date when your trouble started? This seems to be very close to the two weeks
of problems you told us.
What you can try is to change the k3b packages to the version which is not
from packman but from oss (start yast software management search for k3b and
click on the versions tab for the packages and change it to the generic
openSUSE versions, if it does not help it is easy enough to switch back
again).


PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.4 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram

OK, I’ve tried downgrading however that prevents k3b-codecs from being compatible! So if I want to burn an mp3 list to a CD I’m stuck with the Packman version.

I successfully burned a CD through K3b, after changing my version to:

~> rpm -qa --last | grep k3b
k3b-codecs-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2                    Wed 06 Jul 2011 08:28:17 PM PDT
k3b-2.0.2-72.7                                Wed 06 Jul 2011 08:28:13 PM PDT  

the K3b version was from my KDE 4.6 repo (Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/46/openSUSE_11.4)
see my output here:
SUSE Paste

One change I made was to select TAO as the burn mode when beginning the burn project. But then I repeated the process with the mode set to Auto, and that worked also!

On 07/07/2011 06:06 AM, kahu wrote:
>
> I successfully burned a CD through K3b, after changing my version to. . .

i think you should log a bug against that pair that won’t work:

k3b-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2
k3b-codecs-2.0.2-8.pm.13.2

maybe its a problem only in openSUSE, KDE Version: 4.6.5 (4.6.5)
“release 8”, QT Version: 4.7.3 and Kernel: 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop

so, include all relevant data in your initial bug report, here:
http://tinyurl.com/nzhq7j

and, if it not a openSUSE problem, the devs will bump it upstream to the
k3b folks…

thanks in advance for your contribution to free and open software…


DD
-Caveat-Hardware-Software-

On 2011-07-06 17:20, DenverD wrote:

> third, the next few lines would cause me to rush out and buy some better
> media–that is to say, that not all disks are of the same quality…some
> are real trash and you can expect both write and read errors:
>
>> Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
>> Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
>> The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
>> The information for this media may not be correct.

The paragraph is standard, it will say the same for any media, changing the
manufacturer line.

I have a listing of DVD manufacturers, but not CDs:

http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm

And for DVD, Moser Bauer is 2nd class.

> then, this says there was a write error, but i can’t see why and i can’t
> see that it has anything to do with permissions:

Right.

I would try another media, and at a lower speed.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)