My K3B doesn’t seem to recognise a blank CD in the drive tray.
I’m on OS 11.2, K3B & codecs from 11.2 packman, and 11.2 KDE4 factory (ie kde4.4).
When I put a blank cd in, the kde4 device notifier shows me a blank cd and offers to create a project with k3b. I create a data project & click burn, the burn dialog has a greyed out Burn button, and the media selector dropdown says please insert an empty or appendable medium.
If I eject & re-insert the disc at this point, the device notifier again tells me I’ve inserted a blank cd, k3b’s dialog freezes for a second (seems to notice something has happened) but still does not list my cd and remains as it was before.
k3bsetup reports no problems. Burning from commandline (cdrecord) works fine. Dolphin also knows about the blank cd. I’ve burned to these discs before with no problems (K3B used to work quite recently, perhaps 4 or 5 weeks ago). Updates have been applied in the meantime.
Name : k3b Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.0.1 Vendor: PackMan :: Startseite
Release : 1.pm.2.1 Build Date: Fri Aug 27 16:55:17 2010
Install Date: Fri Sep 10 20:23:17 2010 Build Host: thursen
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record Source RPM: k3b-2.0.1-1.pm.2.1.src.rpm
Size : 15539872 License: GPL v2 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri Aug 27 16:55:21 2010, Key ID f899f20d9a795806
Packager : andflo@links2linux.de
URL : K3B - The CD/DVD/BD Creator
Summary : Universal CD and DVD Burning Application
Description :
K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audio
files, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more.
Authors:
Sebastian Trueg <trueg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Thomas Froescher <tfroescher@gmx.de>
Before I start clicking away, there are some discrepancies but I don’t have a url place to store an image for you to see. Not sure which ones to select.
Do it this way. Open up software Manager, view by repository, go to Packman and manually examine each package and where possible switch using the Versions Tab and radio switch, to packman
Yes a big mess. I don’t even know how all those repos got in there anyway. So let me see if I understand this. I could have 2 repos that supply the same program? I don’t like that. I want the minimum number of repos. It seems like there should be a main repo for all programs to go through.
I’m not sure what you said to do… Go through the programs and wherever I can use packman for that program, switch from whatever repo it is now from, over to packman for the source? I’ll take a little time, I will have to work on this tomorrow.
This is something I want to do, print out every application program and deinstall the ones I’ll never use.
You may come to a package that throws a wobbly. So stop there and check it back to KEEP then apply the ones you already marked. Then start again, miss the ones you can’t switch and move on until you get to the end.
Ideally, as much as it pains me to say it though. You might be best just starting again and do a fresh install. Keep your /home as it is if you like though.
Ok I think I see what you mean. I just checked and K3b is at the latest version. I’ll hve to go over the lame and mp3 stuff. Which part of these updates do you think will correct K3b? Thanks.
I don’t know and can’t say for sure it will because you have so much other crud in there.
But specifically you need to work through the whole Packman list and switch what you can A-Z
I have similar problem in June 2012 after installing SuSE 12.1.
Symptoms: When i put a blank DVD in the drive, Linux gives the “Available devices”
Pop-up, which says it is a Blank DVD and offers to Create an AUdio CD or a Project.
In the K3B burning window, the line that says “Please insert an empty DVD or …”, the
line flashes but comes back to “Please insert an empty DVD or …”.
I have this for burning iso images, or copying DVD.
What i tried: - made sure i had a recent version of K3B
- Tried with an older version of K3B
- Tried with an external drive (TST…) as well as the internal one (LG)
- Tried different media from 3 sources as well as CD-R
- Checked permissions
- Tried to run as root
Here is some information on what i have:
1000: Paramount>rpm -qi k3b
Name : k3b
Version : 2.0.2
Release : 15.1
Architecture: i586
Install Date: Fri 22 Jun 2012 09:36:20 AM EDT
Group : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record
Size : 14663009
License : GPLv2+
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Sun 27 May 2012 03:25:03 PM EDT, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb
Source RPM : k3b-2.0.2-15.1.src.rpm
Build Date : Sun 27 May 2012 02:58:31 PM EDT
Build Host : Hatate
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : packman@links2linux.de
Vendor : PackMan :: Startseite
URL : K3B - The CD/DVD/BD Creator
Summary : A Universal CD and DVD Burning Application
Description :
K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audio
files, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more.
Distribution: Essentials / openSUSE_12.1
1001: Paramount>
