fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

[Ben Scott]

On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> wrote:
> I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7.  Now I've
> discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs.

  In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount
daemons trying to auto-mount a disc as I'm trying to write to it.  I
suspect you might be having the same problem, because of this in your
wodim output:

Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
busy)... retrying in 1 second.

  Since I hate those auto-thingies anyway, I just killed them off, and
renamed the binary to keep them from starting again.  (Removing the
package often isn't a good idea because the package may also provide a
library other programs link against.)

I remember the GNOME auto-thingy was called "MagicDev" at one time.  I
don't remember the name of the KDE auto-thingy, and I don't know if
either of those might be using a new auto-thingy by now.  (As of late,
I'm running FVWM, which doesn't start auto-thingies by default anyway,
so I don't have recent experience.)

-- Ben