[nzlug] DVD Writing Woes

[Simon]

Do the burn from cli, verbose, and read the messages.

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:27 +1200, Nevyn wrote:
> 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?
> 
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