On 19/01/2008, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm knee deep in bugs/problems. > > I just wanted to burn a .iso file to a CD. (Why is another sad > story.) On my desktop F7 x86_64 system. > > I tried k3b, my normal tool. There are alternative graphical burning programs, e.g. brasero. Just in case you didn't know. > Tools: Burn CD Image. When I clicked > "Start", it hung, not even updating the window damage. > > Why? ps shows that it was hung awaiting a process doing lsof on /dev/sr0. > > strace showed that the lsof was doing a stat on an NFS mount point. I > have not idea why that would hang (but I could repeat it). I have no > ideas why lsof cared about the mount point. Two more mysteries. Well, k3b includes quite a complex filesystem browser, which does much more than just displaying your home directory. If mounted fs are inaccessible, that can cause problems then. > I decided to burn the .iso using a script that I'd written a while > back. A wrapper for cdrecord. That failed too. It put out an > endlessly repeating stream of warnings (with no newlines): > > Unable to open this SCSI ID. Trying to map to old ATA syntax.This > workaround will disappear in the near future. Fix your > configuration.Unable to open this SCSI ID. Trying to map to old ATA > syntax.This workaround will disappear in the near future. Fix your > configuration. > > This script used to work on this machine. I don't know when it > stopped. The actual cdrecord command was: > cdrecord -v dev=2,0,0 speed=8 -dao driveropts=burnfree --padsize=128k InitialHDD.iso > > The messages from that command, up until the repeated messages, were: > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > scsidev: '2,0,0' > scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0 > WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device > specification. > Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now, > the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible. > Run "wodim --devices" for details. > > Another mystery: what is wodim? That one is easy: wodim is a fork of > cdrecord. So I was actually using wodim. Fedora release notes covered that, IIRC. > So: let's load the debuginfo package. Even though wodim's rpm is in > updates, the -debuginfo package is missing. Another mystery. How did you try to install it? With "debuginfo-install"? > This seems to suggest that dev=2,0,0 should be correct, but we already > know it is not. Another mystery. > > The cdrecord command worked when I used dev=/dev/scd0. That device naming changes is covered in the release notes, isn't it? > I decided, like a good citizen, to report the wodim problems. It > turns out that the bugzilla doesn't think that F7 has a "wodim" > component, even though that is the name of the .rpm that it came in. > Apparently cdrkit is the appropriate component name. Another > surprise.c It's been like that for years and is explained on the bugzilla pages. The "component" is the src.rpm package name. Don't use the "Expert" bugzilla mode if you need the instructions.
