[nzlug] DVD Writing Woes

[Nevyn]

Yep... going to have to give it a go. So far, although it appeared to
be working, it crashed again during the finalizing stage. Ugly, ugly,
ugly...

On 8/24/07, Simon <corwin at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> 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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