> I have been having some trouble with the mkisofs of the > Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r0 (potato). When I try to create an image (of, say, > my home directory) after a certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The > interesting thing is that, this "certain time" varies every time I run the > command! Xcdroast does the same: after a while it bummers me with a > message saying that "something went wrong"... Again, the "while" varies > everytime. On top of this, every now and then, my system just freezes!!! > > I believe I followed all the steps in the CD-Writing howto and I > have been through the documentation already... Any hints?! > > Daniel. > > P.S.: Please, respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED], once I am not > presently subscribing to this email list. Thanks again.
Have you enough free space on your hard drive? mkisofs shouldn't be using anything unusual, save a lot of drive space and a large amount of disk i/o.