Re: K3B cannot find cdrecord, cdrdao and growisofs

"Jim Beard" <jdbeard-kTz99GpLsC/[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:16:01 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.expert
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 14:35 my mailbox was graced by a message from Jim
> Beard who wrote:
>> > Worked, thank you; the problem, now, is that while the main K3B window
>> > displays the empty DVD-R, the "Burn" window" insists that there is no
>> > medium
>> > in the drive, and wants me to insert one .
>
>> Eject the dvd in the drive and put it in again.  This is a problem with
>> HAL or udev or something.  You may need to kill k3b, put a  dvd in the
>> drive, and select burn using k3b when the pop-up announces that a dvd
>> has
>> been found.
>
> Worked after drastic measures were taken: "shutdown -r now"  ;-3(

More and more things are being done automagically, which is fine as long
as the magic works.  When things get a little out of kilter, getting them
back in kilter can be more difficult.

I'm glad you got your stuff working.

Cheers!

jim b.

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