fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs
Lloyd Kvam
lkvam at venix.com
Wed Sep 12 11:31:12 EDT 2007
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> 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.
>
That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes. I think the retry
succeeds. I have not gone to the lengths of renaming the "magic" files,
but I have unmounted the CD to see if it made a difference - which it
did not.
> 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
Actually that is a good idea there. I can switch to runlevel 3 and see
if wodim works. That eliminates all of the GUI magic.
Thanks.
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