Description of Problem: magicdev interferes with xcdroast, causing xcdroast to create coasters. How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Stock RH 8.0 installation 2. Try to burn a CDR using xcdroast Actual Results: you get errors from xcdroast right away and the CDR is unusable. Expected Results: no errors and a usable CDR. Additional Information: Removing magicdev with "rpm -e magicdev" will make xcdroast work properly. Since blasting CDR's has got to be one of the most popular desktop pasttimes these days, I suggest that magicdev be neutered in an official patch until such time as magicdev can be taught to play nicely with the other children. It is not good policy to have a default installation that destroys media.
After ejecting a CD via Magicdev, about 1-2 hours later the magicdev will kill X itself, saying that it lost connection to the 0:0 host. Now, why MagicDev requires X??
* Note that magicdev doesn't do anything that a lot of other software doesn't do also, it does it a lot more frequently. The only reliable way to deal with the fragility of CD recording is to have a way of locking the CD device while the burning is going on. We've definitely been thinking about this for a while, though we've had trouble coming with a good solution. * magicdev makes an X connection - Because it displays dialogs in some cases - So that it will be sure to exit with the GNOME desktop I think you have cause and effect backwards. X crashed for some other reason, then magicdev prints a message when it exits because it lost a connection to the X server. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34433 ***