Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive
Am 04.01.2009 um 08:31 schrieb Mehdi Sarmadi: > Dear All thanks for the replies > > Rainer > That's a tape not a SAN, and there is no fiberchannel. Just an SCSI > tape attached to outside ports of an LSI SCSI adapter(a pci card). > Does that something to do with hp_rescan utility? Isn't hp_rescan only > for Emulex HBAs? If not, Where could I find the rpm or tgz package? It's part of their FC-HBA drivers. Worth a try. cheers, Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] "General Error" in Firefox (CentOS 5.2) Video
I'm guessing the general error is from a plugin, not Firefox itself. I'm guessing gstreamer backend totem plugin, but I don't really know. For flash - on 64-bit get the "alpha" 64-bit plugin from Macromedia. It works quite well, and you don't have to worry about nsplugin-wrapper. For 32-bit obviously just use the non alpha 32-bit rpm package from Adobe. They have a yum file that will keep it up to date. For video - I use the totem plugin with xine backend totem. I compiled my own but I suspect that rpmforge has it. I found gstreamer backend totem to be most unsatisfactory. For PDF - the acroread package from Adobe has a 32-bit browser plugin, I don't know of a 64-bit plugin but you can use nswrapper - however, I prefer not to, and just download the pdf to view with evince or acroread. clem...@dwf.com wrote: > This is a new instalation of CentOS 5.2 > When I go to FireFox and try to watch a Video clip, some > files transfer, and then I get the message "General Error" in > the video window. > > I ASSUME some additional software needs to be downloaded, > but what from where? > > When running on that Other OS, a message comes up giving you > an opertunity to do the download. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > > >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I > >> cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into > >> that last night. Went to M$ Windows and I was able to erase the 2 > >> CD-RW media, without any problem. Then, I tried to burn the files > >> (which are M$ Windows files) to the CD-RW media. No go and I wasted > >> about 20-30 minutes, while it was in a loop or stalled on M$ Windows. > >> Then, I went back to CentOS and I was able to burn the files, without > >> any problems. :-)Not sure what is causing the issues. Nothing > >> grave, such as borked your box recently. > > > > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and > > eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I > > desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW into > > the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up with a > > tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew that I > > didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd > > nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it > > to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the > > CD-RW to do an install! > > Anne: Cool. Thanks. I will try that, the next time I use a CD-RW that > has previously been used. I tried "Tools > Erase CD-RW" and it got > stuck. That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we should file a bug report. > Maybe it will just work, if I let it erase the media > automatically, without me asking If you have a spare disk you might do a test burn, while it's on your mind? Let us know what happens. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] "General Error" in Firefox (CentOS 5.2) Video
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: > clem...@dwf.com wrote: >> This is a new instalation of CentOS 5.2 >> When I go to FireFox and try to watch a Video clip, some >> files transfer, and then I get the message "General Error" in >> the video window. >> >> I ASSUME some additional software needs to be downloaded, >> but what from where? >> >> When running on that Other OS, a message comes up giving you >> an opertunity to do the download. > > I'm guessing the general error is from a plugin, not Firefox itself. I'm > guessing gstreamer backend totem plugin, but I don't really know. > > For flash - on 64-bit get the "alpha" 64-bit plugin from Macromedia. It > works quite well, and you don't have to worry about nsplugin-wrapper. > For 32-bit obviously just use the non alpha 32-bit rpm package from > Adobe. They have a yum file that will keep it up to date. This one is packaged within RPMforge as flash-plugin. -- -- dag wieers, d...@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] "General Error" in Firefox (CentOS 5.2) Video
Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: > >> clem...@dwf.com wrote: >>> This is a new instalation of CentOS 5.2 >>> When I go to FireFox and try to watch a Video clip, some >>> files transfer, and then I get the message "General Error" in >>> the video window. >>> >>> I ASSUME some additional software needs to be downloaded, >>> but what from where? >>> >>> When running on that Other OS, a message comes up giving you >>> an opertunity to do the download. >> I'm guessing the general error is from a plugin, not Firefox itself. I'm >> guessing gstreamer backend totem plugin, but I don't really know. >> >> For flash - on 64-bit get the "alpha" 64-bit plugin from Macromedia. It >> works quite well, and you don't have to worry about nsplugin-wrapper. >> For 32-bit obviously just use the non alpha 32-bit rpm package from >> Adobe. They have a yum file that will keep it up to date. > > This one is packaged within RPMforge as flash-plugin. > There are some instructions for enabling multimedia support (including the flash-plugin from RPMForge) available on the Wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:23:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> > On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing > >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the > >> >> >> time. I ran > > > > >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and > >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days > >> >> > ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a > >> >> > CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b > >> >> > opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked > >> >> > if I knew that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it > >> >> > on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It > >> >> > asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, > >> >> > verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an install! > > > >From reading that, I think that you did not unmount the media, before > > that. Am I correct? No. Perhaps I did not make it clear. I did not allow the disk to be mounted. The tip opened up when k3b recognised the disk, which has nothing to do with mounting. If you can't avoid mounting the disk, then you must umount it before attempting to use it with k3b. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson > wrote: >> On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: > I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I > cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an install! > >> That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we should >> file a bug report. > >> If you have a spare disk you might do a test burn, while it's on your mind? >> Let us know what happens. > > Anne: This seems OT and probably a bug report or a support request, on > CentOS or at Upstream would be appropriate? This morning, I took two > (2) CD-RW media, one Imation and one Verbatim, and I tried this. Each > of them had four (4) photos on them, a few MB of stuff. No Joy here. I > get different results than you do. When I hoped it would automatically > erase the CD-RW, as it did for you, before writing new data, I got > this Error: The disk is either empty or is not appendable". > > When I tried Tools > Erase CD-RW (I tried Erase Fast, Complete and > Last Session and got the same results), I got, "The Erasing process > failed. Do you want to see the debugging output?". Below is that file. > Should a bug or support request be filed about K3b? If so, where? Will > you do that? I suspect that K3b a very widely used application. I was > logged in as a normal user, not root. TIA, Lanny > > System > --- > K3b Version: 0.12.17 > > KDE Version: 3.5.4-16.el5.centos CentOS > QT Version: 3.3.6 > Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 > Devices > --- > SONY CD-RW CRX216E PD03 (/dev/hdd, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] > [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; > RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] > > HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0D20 (/dev/hdc, ) at [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] > [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] > Used versions > --- > cdrecord: 2.1 > > cdrecord command: > --- > /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 -tao > driveropts=burnfree -eject -overburn blank=fast -force > > cdrecord > --- > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority > using setpriority(). > /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. > scsidev: '/dev/hdd' > devname: '/dev/hdd' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. > Cannot open SCSI driver. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make > sure you are root. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. > Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > this version. > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM I've seen this as well. I believe it happens because KDE (I guess GNOME would do the same) detects the disc, mounts it and opens a konqueror (fileviewer) window to graphically show the top-level directory. If that happens, k3b cannot open the device exclusively (that's what the error message says) and therefore cannot erase it. The workarou
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but nothing >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, most or all >> >> >> >> of the >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think of, and >> >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple of days >> >> >> > ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of blanks. I put a >> >> >> > CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >used k3b before. K3b >> >> >> > opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle >of miracles, it asked >> >> >> > if I knew that I didn't need to erase the >CD-RW as k3b could do it >> >> >> > on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to >burn the iso. It >> >> >> > asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use >it. I got a clean, >> >> >> > verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an >install! > No. Perhaps I did not make it clear. I did not allow the >disk to be > mounted. > The tip opened up when k3b recognised the disk, which >has nothing to do with > mounting. If you can't avoid mounting the disk, then you >must umount it > before attempting to use it with k3b. OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or RedHat.com please tell me. I opened a terminal window, "su -" and then "umount /dev/hdd" and then I exited from the shell. (a) I can use the drop down menu, "Tools" > "Erase CD-RW", without any problem. (b) I can write new files to the CD-RW. I did not get a message, asking me if I wanted it to erase the CD-RW media. It did *not* erase the existing files on the CD-RW media, before writing the new files. It added the new files, as if the CD-RW were a multi session disk. (c) In the K3b list of files in my home directory (/home/lanny) it showed files that had been deleted previously. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sunday 04 January 2009 16:19:46 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but nothing > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, most > >> >> >> >> or all of the > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think of, > >> >> >> > and eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple of > >> >> >> > days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of blanks. > >> >> >> > I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >used k3b > >> >> >> > before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle >of > >> >> >> > miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the > >> >> >> > >CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I > >> >> >> > asked it to >burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it to blank the > >> >> >> > disc and use >it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the > >> >> >> > CD-RW to do an >install! > > > > > No. Perhaps I did not make it clear. I did not allow the >disk to be > > mounted. The tip opened up when k3b recognised the disk, which >has > > nothing to do with mounting. If you can't avoid mounting the disk, then > > you >must umount it before attempting to use it with k3b. > > OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into > warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or > RedHat.com please tell me. > > I opened a terminal window, "su -" and then "umount /dev/hdd" and > then I exited from the shell. > > (a) I can use the drop down menu, "Tools" > "Erase CD-RW", without any > problem. > That seems to prove that it's simply a mount problem. > (b) I can write new files to the CD-RW. I did not get a message, > asking me if I wanted it to erase the CD-RW media. It did *not* erase > the existing files on the CD-RW media, before writing the new files. > It added the new files, as if the CD-RW were a multi session disk. > Probably you only get that message when it needs a whole disk, like burning an iso (bootable). > (c) In the K3b list of files in my home directory (/home/lanny) it > showed files that had been deleted previously. > Not sure what you mean there, but maybe it's relelvant that any files in your wastebin are still actually there in your home directory? I've never seen anything that makes me suspect a problem with this - never seen files that I believed to be deleted. You need to know if anyone else has seen this problem, before reporting it. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. > >> >> I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran > >> >> into > > > > >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and > >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I > >> > desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW > >> > into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up > >> > with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew > >> > that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. > >> > I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I > >> > wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, > >> > and used the CD-RW to do an install! > > > > > That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we > > should file a bug report. > > > > > If you have a spare disk you might do a test burn, while it's on your > > mind? Let us know what happens. > > Anne: This seems OT and probably a bug report or a support request, on > CentOS or at Upstream would be appropriate? Before you can file a bug report that is likely to help get anything sorted, you have to be able to define the problem. At the moment I don't think you have done so. > This morning, I took two > (2) CD-RW media, one Imation and one Verbatim, and I tried this. Each > of them had four (4) photos on them, a few MB of stuff. No Joy here. I > get different results than you do. When I hoped it would automatically > erase the CD-RW, as it did for you, before writing new data, I got > this Error: The disk is either empty or is not appendable". > > When I tried Tools > Erase CD-RW (I tried Erase Fast, Complete and > Last Session and got the same results), I got, "The Erasing process > failed. Do you want to see the debugging output?". Below is that file. > Should a bug or support request be filed about K3b? If so, where? Will > you do that? I suspect that K3b a very widely used application. I was > logged in as a normal user, not root. TIA, Lanny > > System > --- > K3b Version: 0.12.17 > > KDE Version: 3.5.4-16.el5.centos CentOS > QT Version: 3.3.6 > Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 > Devices > --- > SONY CD-RW CRX216E PD03 (/dev/hdd, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] > [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; > RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] > > HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0D20 (/dev/hdc, ) at [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] > [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] > Used versions > --- > cdrecord: 2.1 > > cdrecord command: > --- > /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 -tao > driveropts=burnfree -eject -overburn blank=fast -force > > cdrecord > --- > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set > RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set > priority using setpriority(). > /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. > scsidev: '/dev/hdd' > devname: '/dev/hdd' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. I agree with Kay that this implies that the drive is mounted. You MUST make sure that it isn't before using k3b. > Cannot open SCSI driver. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make > sure you are root. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord > dev=help'. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 > Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with > DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the > original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > this version. > TOC Ty
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I >> >> cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I >> > desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW into >> > the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up with a >> > tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew that I >> > didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd >> > nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it >> > to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the >> > CD-RW to do an install! > That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we should > file a bug report. > If you have a spare disk you might do a test burn, while it's on your mind? > Let us know what happens. Anne: This seems OT and probably a bug report or a support request, on CentOS or at Upstream would be appropriate? This morning, I took two (2) CD-RW media, one Imation and one Verbatim, and I tried this. Each of them had four (4) photos on them, a few MB of stuff. No Joy here. I get different results than you do. When I hoped it would automatically erase the CD-RW, as it did for you, before writing new data, I got this Error: The disk is either empty or is not appendable". When I tried Tools > Erase CD-RW (I tried Erase Fast, Complete and Last Session and got the same results), I got, "The Erasing process failed. Do you want to see the debugging output?". Below is that file. Should a bug or support request be filed about K3b? If so, where? Will you do that? I suspect that K3b a very widely used application. I was logged in as a normal user, not root. TIA, Lanny System --- K3b Version: 0.12.17 KDE Version: 3.5.4-16.el5.centos CentOS QT Version: 3.3.6 Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 Devices --- SONY CD-RW CRX216E PD03 (/dev/hdd, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0D20 (/dev/hdc, ) at [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None] Used versions --- cdrecord: 2.1 cdrecord command: --- /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -overburn blank=fast -force cdrecord --- /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. scsidev: '/dev/hdd' devname: '/dev/hdd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open SCSI driver. /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but nothing >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, most >> >> >> >> >> or all of the > >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think of, >> >> >> >> > and eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple of >> >> >> >> > days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of blanks. >> >> >> >> > I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >used k3b >> >> >> >> > before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle >of >> >> >> >> > miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the >> >> >> >> > >CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I >> >> >> >> > asked it to >burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it to blank the >> >> >> >> > disc and use >it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used the >> >> >> >> > CD-RW to do an >install! >> >> OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into >> warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or >> RedHat.com please tell me. >> >> I opened a terminal window, "su -" and then "umount /dev/hdd" and >> then I exited from the shell. >> >> (a) I can use the drop down menu, "Tools" > "Erase CD-RW", without any >> problem. >> > That seems to prove that it's simply a mount problem. Yes. > >> (b) I can write new files to the CD-RW. I did not get a message, >> asking me if I wanted it to erase the CD-RW media. It did *not* erase >> the existing files on the CD-RW media, before writing the new files. >> It added the new files, as if the CD-RW were a multi session disk. >> > Probably you only get that message when it needs a whole disk, like burning an > iso (bootable). I wonder why it did not erase the four (4) photos I had on the CD-RW media, before it wrote the two (2) files I wanted it to write? There are now six (6) files on the CD-RW media. No problem, it was only a test, but I assumed, incorrectly, as usual when I assume, that it would erase the CD-RW, before writing the files I wanted it to write to the CD-RW. > >> (c) In the K3b list of files in my home directory (/home/lanny) it >> showed files that had been deleted previously. >> > Not sure what you mean there, but maybe it's relelvant that any files in your > wastebin are still actually there in your home directory? I've never seen > anything that makes me suspect a problem with this - never seen files that I > believed to be deleted. When you use K3b to create a Data disc (CD-R, CD-RW, etc) it shows a list of files to choose from. In this case, I previously had two (2) files in my home directory and when I used K3b to make the tests this morning, they were shown. However, if I look at my home directory, they are not shown, even if I tell Nautilus to show Hidden files. > > You need to know if anyone else has seen this problem, before reporting it. That last one is trivial. If you think it is OK (or even "normal") that it did not offer to erase the CD-RW media before writing the new files, or, that it did not erase the old files, I will not report it. Maybe that behavior is what the program is expected to do. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:30:40 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but > >> >> >> >> >> nothing > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> most > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> or all of the > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think > > >> >> >> > of, > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >> > and eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple > >> >> >> >> > of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of > >> >> >> >> > blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't > >> >> >> >> > >used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and > >> >> >> >> > miracle >of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need > >> >> >> >> > to erase the > >> >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >> > >CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so > >> >> >> >> > > I > >> >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >> > asked it to >burn the iso. It asked if I wanted it to blank > >> >> >> >> > the disc and use >it. I got a clean, verified burn, and used > >> >> >> >> > the CD-RW to do an >install! > >> > >> > >> OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into > >> warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or > >> RedHat.com please tell me. > >> > >> I opened a terminal window, "su -" and then "umount /dev/hdd" and > >> then I exited from the shell. > >> > >> (a) I can use the drop down menu, "Tools" > "Erase CD-RW", without any > >> problem. > > > > That seems to prove that it's simply a mount problem. > > Yes. > > >> (b) I can write new files to the CD-RW. I did not get a message, > >> asking me if I wanted it to erase the CD-RW media. It did *not* erase > >> the existing files on the CD-RW media, before writing the new files. > >> It added the new files, as if the CD-RW were a multi session disk. > > > > Probably you only get that message when it needs a whole disk, like > > burning an iso (bootable). > > I wonder why it did not erase the four (4) photos I had on the CD-RW > media, before it wrote the two (2) files I wanted it to write? There > are now six (6) files on the CD-RW media. No problem, it was only a > test, but I assumed, incorrectly, as usual when I assume, that it > would erase the CD-RW, before writing the files I wanted it to write > to the CD-RW. > > >> (c) In the K3b list of files in my home directory (/home/lanny) it > >> showed files that had been deleted previously. > > > > Not sure what you mean there, but maybe it's relelvant that any files in > > your wastebin are still actually there in your home directory? I've > > never seen anything that makes me suspect a problem with this - never > > seen files that I believed to be deleted. > > When you use K3b to create a Data disc (CD-R, CD-RW, etc) it shows a > list of files to choose from. In this case, I previously had two (2) > files in my home directory and when I used K3b to make the tests this > morning, they were shown. However, if I look at my home directory, > they are not shown, even if I tell Nautilus to show Hidden files. > > > You need to know if anyone else has seen this problem, before reporting > > it. > > That last one is trivial. If you think it is OK (or even "normal") > that it did not offer to erase the CD-RW media before writing the new > files, or, that it did not erase the old files, I will not report it. > Maybe that behavior is what the program is expected to do. > I think it *is* expected behaviour. After all, you don't want it to erase anything without warning. I think you had a disk that is not finalized (do CD-RW disks finalize? I don't know) therefore it could append the file. There was nothing in what you were doing to make it suspect that it shouldn't do so. I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems to me that that is what has happened, and is quite normal. Now if you have an iso downloaded anywhere you might try burning an image, and see if that asks you about deleting. I'll bet it does. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: >> > On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. >> >> >> I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I >> >> > desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW >> >> > into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up >> >> > with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew >> >> > that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. >> >> > I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I >> >> > wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, >> >> > and used the CD-RW to do an install! >From reading that, I think that you did not unmount the media, before that. Am I correct? If so, that does not work for me. I have tried this, logged in as a regular user and also logged in as root. Same results, so it is not a permissions problem. > Before you can file a bug report that is likely to help get anything sorted, > you have to be able to define the problem. At the moment I don't think you > have done so. Correct. I believe Fred Smith is correct that the drive needs to be unmounted. I am going to try to do that and see what happens. > I agree with Kay that this implies that the drive is mounted. You MUST make > sure that it isn't before using k3b. OK. I will try to unmount /dev/hdd, before I launch K3b for the next attempt(s). ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive
Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: > Hello > > I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The > server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, > and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U > Rack-mountable. > > HP Ultrium documentation says two drivers should be automatically > up, sym53c8xx for LSI SCSI interface "st" for tape and /proc/scsi/scsi > should contain information about tape drive, e.g. SCSI ID. However > none of them happened in my case! (document: "UP LTO Ultrium 2-3 - > Unix Config Guide") > > The SCSI adapter is an LSI53C1030. The system has another the same > adapter which is used for hard disk drives. > > The interesting part is, the hard disk are detected and even OS > boots from them, but I can't make the tape drive work. Moreover, in > system boot up, LSI SCSI BIOS displays informations saying there is a > tape drive connected! > > Any one has same experience, suggestion, comments or clues? > > I've place a zip file here: > http://msarmadi.googlepages.com/report_files.zip which contains: > > - dmesg > - lshal > - lsmod > - lspci -vv > - cat /proc/scsi/scsi > proc.scsi.scsi > - cat /proc/modules > proc.modules > - uname -a > uname > > Also, below there are detailed information about devices and OS > config/log files. > > = System info: > Operating System: Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 5(the same thing happened > using CentOS 5.2) > Sever System: HP ML530 G4 > SCSI Adapter: LSI 1030 > Tape Drive: HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable > SCSI Cable: P/N 313375002 Rev R (coming with tape drive) > > *Note that, no other SCSI devices are connected to the cable. > > = Here is some parts of boot up messages on the screen of HP ML350 G4 > System BIOS D17 (14/04/2005) > > ... > > MPTBIOS-5.05.18 > > ... > > Slot 3 HP Smart Array 6400 Controller (192MB, v.2.26) 1 Logic Drive Detected > 1794-Slot 3 Drive Arraye - Array Accelerator Battery Charge low > Array Accelerator Posted-Write Cache is temporarilty Disabled > Array Accelerator batteries hace failed to charge and should be replaced > > > Slot 3 HP Smart Array 6400 EM Controller (192MB, v.2.26) 1 Logic Drive > Detected >Tape or CD-ROM Drive(s) Detected: >SCSI Port 2: SCSI ID 1 > 1785-Slot 3 Drive Arraye Not Configured >No Drives Detected > ... > > [Followed by GRUB and Linux boot up] > = > > -- > Mehdi Sarmadi Mehdi, did you install the "mt-st" RPM ? This lets you control your tape with the mt utilities. Knowledgebase articles that seem to be relevant for your case are e.g. http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-1235 http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7084 HTH, Kay ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson >> wrote: >>> On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I >> cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into >>> That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we should >>> file a bug report. > I've seen this as well. I believe it happens because >KDE (I guess GNOME > would do the same) detects the disc, mounts it and >opens a konqueror Yes. I use GNOME. KDE is also installed, but it is very rare that I use KDE> > The workaround is to > a) wait until the fileviewer window comes up, > b) close theat window > c) unmount the disc (right-click on desktop icon) > d) make sure it's no longer mounted, by saying "mount" in a shell window > and inspecting the output carefully > e) only then start k3b. > works for me. Fred Smith mentioned unmounting the drive. I will try that and see if that works for me. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT-ish: GPG problem
I'm asking here because it is the best resource I know for knowledgeable people. The problem in question occurs on my Fedora 9 box and Fedora 10 netbook, while another person, Chris, has the problem on a Mandriva 2009 box. Whatever is causing it, that leads me to think that it's not distro-specific. Both of us are using kmail. Kgpg sees and lists all the keys on my keyring. Setting up cryptography for kmail on the boxes in question is where the problem lies. KMail does not appear to be seeing the keyrings. When you try to select your key, the list is empty. If you type in the key ID and ask it to fetch the keys you get an endless back and forward progress bar. As an experiment, on my F10 netbook I renamed the ~/.gnupg folder and recreated it by logging in. I did not copy my keyrings across. I then asked for my key to be imported, and that completed correctly. I then turned to KMail, but still my key could not be seen or used. I think that that experiment rules out any possibility that I had introduced the problem by copying in config files and keyrings from previous versions. Can anyone suggest further lines of enquiry? Thanks Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:23:55AM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Anne Wilson > wrote: > > On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> > On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. > >> >> >> I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran > > >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and > >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I > >> >> > desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW > >> >> > into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up > >> >> > with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew > >> >> > that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly. > >> >> > I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I > >> >> > wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified burn, > >> >> > and used the CD-RW to do an install! > > >From reading that, I think that you did not unmount the media, before > that. Am I correct? If so, that does not work for me. I have tried > this, logged in as a regular user and also logged in as root. Same > results, so it is not a permissions problem. > > > Before you can file a bug report that is likely to help get anything sorted, > > you have to be able to define the problem. At the moment I don't think you > > have done so. > > Correct. I believe Fred Smith is correct that the drive needs to be > unmounted. I am going to try to do that and see what happens. > > > I agree with Kay that this implies that the drive is mounted. You MUST make > > sure that it isn't before using k3b. > > OK. I will try to unmount /dev/hdd, before I launch K3b for the next > attempt(s). I firmly remember that at times in the past K3B would automaticlaly unmount the CD when it was about to erase or otherwise write to it, but on my current system (centos 5) it does not. I've not really investigated to find out why (though I certainly should). -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. -- Philippians 4:13 --- pgptlMIK5sClF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:19:46AM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anne Wilson > wrote: > >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but nothing >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, most or all > >> >> >> >> of the > > >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think of, > >> >> >> > and > >> >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple of days > >> >> >> > ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of blanks. I put a > >> >> >> > CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >used k3b before. K3b > >> >> >> > opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle >of miracles, it > >> >> >> > asked > >> >> >> > if I knew that I didn't need to erase the >CD-RW as k3b could do it > >> >> >> > on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to >burn the iso. It > >> >> >> > asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use >it. I got a clean, > >> >> >> > verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an >install! > > > No. Perhaps I did not make it clear. I did not allow the >disk to be > > mounted. > > The tip opened up when k3b recognised the disk, which >has nothing to do > > with > > mounting. If you can't avoid mounting the disk, then you >must umount it > > before attempting to use it with k3b. > > OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into > warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or > RedHat.com please tell me. > > I opened a terminal window, "su -" and then "umount /dev/hdd" and > then I exited from the shell. > > (a) I can use the drop down menu, "Tools" > "Erase CD-RW", without any > problem. > > (b) I can write new files to the CD-RW. I did not get a message, > asking me if I wanted it to erase the CD-RW media. It did *not* erase There is an option in K3B to automatically erase RW media when it finds one in its drive. You have to set that option or else it defaults to not erasing it (and not asking you). On the Settings menu, Configure K3B, Writing, Advanced, is a checkbox labeled "Automatically erase CD-RWs and DVD-RWs". If that's not checked it won't automatically erase it, and if it IS checked, it will ask you first. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. -- Philippians 4:13 --- pgpQv3RuLQW8D.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
Lanny Marcus wrote: > OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into > warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or > RedHat.com please tell me. redhat probably. We saw similar issue(s) in fedora awhile back, and patched k3b to auto-demount media (using gnome-mount)... rhel's k3b builds probably ought to do something similar. -- Rex ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: (a) Biostar or MSI mainboard? (b) all Celeron CPU's OK?
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > the PSU in your Dimension 2400 (a celeron system with the i845gv > chipset) may not work with a PCI-Express motherboard as they've changed > hte PSU spec to require significantly more +12V than in older ATX > designs. Also, Dell is fairly notorious for using PSUs that are just > barely adequate for the system as originally configured. John: Now that the holidays are over, I plan to take the box for the motherboard repairman to look at the motherboard and power supply. Hopefully, Monday or Tuesday. I did discover that the fan (Exhaust?) for the CPU Shroud is dead. I have suspected a heating problem Today, I wanted to put in another hard drive, in case of a disaster when the box is in the shop. I now know why the Dell (Spanish language) manual does not show how to remove a hard drive in the Dimension 2400 series. Took off the bezel, expecting to find 2 or 3 screws holding the HD in place, as in our Compaq Evo and 3 other Dell Dimension boxes. No screws there. They must have some special method of installing hard drives in the factory and/or some special tool. It is going to go to the shop with my hard drive in it, instead of one that has nothing important on it. I did a backup today... I could see two (2) screws. One I could get to. The other one, they must have a special tool in the factory And, they never anticipated anyone replacing a hard drive in a Dell Dimension 2400 box? I'm sure it can be done, but not like in our other desktop boxes, where it's a snap. I won the box in a raffle, which is like a gift from God, so I can't complain, but that's another reason (in addition to the USD$237 cost of a new motherboard delivered to our house) I probably will not buy another Dell. Hoping he can figure out why the four (4) Diagnostic Lights on the motherboard are Yellow (the Capacitors I can see look OK, if that's a way to judge them...). If nothing else, the damage was probably caused by overheating. All of the other symptoms, some of which were major, went away, after I seated all the connectors, RAM, etc.:-) If the Power Supply needs replacing, hopefully any Generic ATX PSU will be OK. As you wrote, they stopped using Proprietary connectors. That is a big "PLUS". :-) I saw a Foxconn sticker on the motherboard, which surprised me. I think years ago, Dell put Intel OEM motherboards into Dimension boxes. Thanks for your help on this! Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:30:40 Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but >> >> >> >> >> >> nothing >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> most >> >> >> >> >> >> or all of the >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think >> >> >> >> >> > and eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple >> >> >> >> >> > of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of >> >> >> >> >> > blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >> >> >> >> >> > >used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and >> >> >> >> >> > miracle >of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need >> >> >> >> >> > to erase the > I think it *is* expected behaviour. After all, you don't want it to erase > anything without warning. I think you had a disk that is not finalized (do > CD-RW disks finalize? I don't know) therefore it could append the file. > There was nothing in what you were doing to make it suspect that it shouldn't > do so. Yes. Normally, one is asked, before data are deleted. I am not sure whether or not CD-RW media finalize (there's another word for that?). I think so, because they seem to have something done to them, after the data are written to the media. > > I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems to me that that is what has > happened, and is quite normal. Now if you have an iso downloaded anywhere you > might try burning an image, and see if that asks you about deleting. I'll bet > it does. I'll Download an .iso and see if I am asked whether or not I want to erase the media before writing the .iso to it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:14 PM, fred smith wrote: > There is an option in K3B to automatically erase RW media when it finds > one in its drive. You have to set that option or else it defaults to not > erasing it (and not asking you). > > On the Settings menu, Configure K3B, Writing, Advanced, is a checkbox > labeled "Automatically erase CD-RWs and DVD-RWs". If that's not checked > it won't automatically erase it, and if it IS checked, it will ask you > first. Thank you. I now have that box checked. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Crash with qemu: 5.2 host and 5.2 guest
I wrote: > Adding the following to the things I tried without success: > * installed the kernel-xen from > http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/128.el5/x86_64/ Does this mean that both RHEL 5.3 and (thus) CentOS 5.3 won't ship a solution to my problem for now? Regards Michael ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into >> warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or >> RedHat.com please tell me. > > redhat probably. We saw similar issue(s) in fedora awhile back, and patched > >k3b to auto-demount media (using gnome-mount)... rhel's k3b builds probably > >ought to do something similar. What is the procedure for reporting? Seems like within the past few weeks there was something about how to do this. First report to CentOS Bugzilla and then report to RedHat Bugzilla and cross reference them? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT-ish: GPG problem
Anne Wilson wrote: > [snip] Fedora 9 > [snip] Fedora 10 > [snip] Mandriva 2009 > [snip] > Can anyone suggest further lines of enquiry? Thanks http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?q=linux+forums -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923www.knossos.net.nz signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > >> OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into > >> warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or > >> RedHat.com please tell me. > > > > redhat probably. We saw similar issue(s) in fedora awhile back, and > > patched >k3b to auto-demount media (using gnome-mount)... rhel's k3b builds > > probably >ought to do something similar. > > What is the procedure for reporting? Seems like within the past few > weeks there was something about how to do this. First report to CentOS > Bugzilla and then report to RedHat Bugzilla and cross reference them? Lanny, AFAIK, you would go to bugzilla.redhat.com or perhaps the Centos bugzilla (if not at bugzilla.centos.org, then the centos.org web site would contain a pointer to it). If you're reporting a bug in Centos, I'd think it should go to the Centos bugzilla who will then (eventually???) forward it to redhat. However it may be worth looking at redhat's bugzilla to see if they already have it. If so you could just add your voice to the throng. -- --- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 - The Boulder Pledge - pgptmYn6QuFnY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues & questions
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:25 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> > >> >> OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into >> >> warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or >> >> RedHat.com please tell me. >> > >> > redhat probably. We saw similar issue(s) in fedora awhile back, and >> > patched >k3b to auto-demount media (using gnome-mount)... rhel's k3b >> > builds probably >ought to do something similar. >> >> What is the procedure for reporting? Seems like within the past few >> weeks there was something about how to do this. First report to CentOS >> Bugzilla and then report to RedHat Bugzilla and cross reference them? > > Lanny, AFAIK, you would go to bugzilla.redhat.com or perhaps the > Centos bugzilla (if not at bugzilla.centos.org, then the centos.org > web site would contain a pointer to it). > > If you're reporting a bug in Centos, I'd think it should go to the Centos > bugzilla who will then (eventually???) forward it to redhat. However it may > be worth looking at redhat's bugzilla to see if they already have it. If so > you could just add your voice to the throng. Good idea. I will try to find it on Redhat's Bugzilla, before I post it. Thanks! Probably it is in RHEL and we got it from them ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
