Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 184251
K3b not able to erase CD-RW disk
Last modified: 2008-03-10 21:12:57 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060210 Fedora/1.5.0.1-3 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Description of problem: K3b is not able to erase CD-RW disk. This problem was also present in FC5t2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): k3b-0.12.10-2.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start K3b 2.Select Tools/Erase CD-RW 3.Click Start Actual Results: There comes a Erasing Failed dialog saying "The Erasing process failed. Do you want to see the debugging output?" Expected Results: CD Should be erased succesfully. Additional info: I have disabled SELinux. This problem appears with both quick and complete format. Same problem seems to be also present in FC5test2 (HW Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1667G-20). All CD-RW disks I tried to erase with K3b were succesfully erased when using Nero.
Created attachment 125764 [details] K3b error log when complete erase mode was selected
Created attachment 125765 [details] K3b error log from my FC5t2 laptop
It seems another application is using the device. Could you find that out by using lsof and fuser? As root: # fuser -a /dev/hdc would e.g. output /dev/hdc: 2702 then find out what process number 2702 is.
Unfortunately I do not get any pid output from the fuser -a /dev/hdc (executed as root, with root env) neither before erasing nor during erasing attempt or after it. I just get [root@fc5AMD64 ~]# fuser -a /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: [root@fc5AMD64 ~]# I do not know if this helps any, but I'll attach lsof output with the process information (ps -Alf) to this report. (taken during k3b trying to erase CD-RW). Anything else I could do to help?
Created attachment 125836 [details] lsof output with ps -Alf output
Created attachment 132134 [details] error k3b
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