[nzlug] DVD Writing Woes

[Nevyn]

On 8/20/07, Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
> Nevyn wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Yesterday I was writing DVD's in Ubuntu. Eventually though, things
> > started to turn sour. While it was writing a DVD, it stopped at the
> > finalizing disc stage. The DVD writer was locked up and I couldn't
> > kill the process still using it, so I decided that for once a reboot
> > might be in order.
> >
> > However, now when I try to write a DVD, it goes from "preparing disc"
> > to "finalizing disc" in around 30 seconds. It then ejects the disc,
> > tells me that writing failed.
> >
> > It also writes something to the DVD so the blanks are no longer usable.
> >
> > This is happening with nautilus's burning folder thingee (not sure
> > what it's called) and k3b.
> >
> > Has anyone ever come across this problem and have any ideas on how I
> > might fix this?
> >
> >
>
> Often bad/incompatible media, or a computer that needs a windows style
> reboot (can't explain it, maybe I run too many memory leaky apps or
> something)

The media was exactly the same spindle as I was using when it was
working (and crashed). I've done a reboot since the crash though the
problem is still there. I've run as root just to make sure it wasn't
some sort of silly permissions error that I'd overlooked.

Any other ideas out there?