[Bug 119258] Re: K3B is freezing system AFTER burning DVD

[Vanessa Ezekowitz]

Yet another "me too" here.  Exact same symptoms as the OP - the system
freezes just after a burn has finished.  The mouse and console are dead
and I can't ssh in from another box ("no route to host"), but I _can_
use Alt-SysRq-[U,S,B] to restart the computer, so it's not as though the
system has hard locked.

This has happened multiple times, and each time it happens, the burned
disk is usable afterward - I have yet to end up with a coaster.

There is nothing in /var/crash., but the system did manage to tack these
few lines onto the end of /var/log/messages before I forced the restart:

==========
Aug 20 22:35:54 swan kernel: [187390.252345] hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Aug 20 22:35:58 swan kernel: [187390.252351] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Aug 20 22:36:09 swan kernel: [187398.621151] hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Aug 20 22:36:09 swan kernel: [187398.621158] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Aug 20 22:36:22 swan kernel: [187407.597348] hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Aug 20 22:36:22 swan kernel: [187407.597356] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Aug 20 22:36:59 swan kernel: [187427.085845] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
==========

The next lines after these are boot messages from the restart that
followed the freeze.  This happens with DVD's, but I have not tried
burning a CD recently (don't have any blanks handy)

We use K3B to burn with.  Per gudwin's suggestion, un-checking the
"don't eject when finished" option in the "Advanced" section of the
config dialog seems to have worked for me.  K3B now properly finishes
the burn and ejects the disc without any hangs (except that HAL gets in
the way and K3B has to try a couple of times to successfully eject).
Just did four completely unique burns in a row without a problem.

The machine is custom-built:  Gigabyte K8U-939 mainboard with an AMD
64x2 3800+ CPU, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB no-name SATA hard disk, IDE Lite-On SHW-
160P6S burner, nVidia MX4000 video.  Using the regular 32 bit version of
Hardy, kernel is  "2.6.24-19-generic".

For whatever it is worth, this system also suffers from that same
annoying problem of not being able to open/eject an empty drive via the
front panel button.

Gentoo also experienced both the freeze issue we're talking about here,
and the empty-drive-eject issue, so this definitely goes upstream
to...well, somewhere! :-)

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K3B is freezing system AFTER burning DVD
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