k3b errors out while burning

[Ed Fletcher]

C Hamel wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 14:23, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> 
>>C Hamel wrote:
>>
>>>Both Breezy & Dapper Flight4 are having a problem burning using k3b.  If
>>>I disconnect from the internet, at least Breezy will burn that same info
>>>to CD (haven't tried it on Dapper, yet).  Is there a connection between
>>>burning & being on the internet?  I don't remember having that problem
>>>before switching to ubuntu.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>
>>I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 and k3b.  I've had no problems with burning either
>>CDs or DVDs while connected to the net.  What exactly is happening when
>>you try to burn something?
>>
>>Ed
>>--
>>Ed Fletcher
>>ed at fletcher.ca
>>
>>You live and learn.  At any rate, you live.
>>- Douglas Adams
> 
> I get a tremendously long pause... then, "I/O error, not necessarily 
> serious" (what a bogus msg!).  Of course, 100% of them _are_ serious enough 
> to render a coaster each and every time rather than a completed CD/DVD of 
> whatever type.  So far I've had so many coasters as to have lost count but 
> this morning, alone, rendered at least three.
> 
That's pretty bizarre.  To start with, you might want to consider using
rewritables until you get this solved.

If k3b works when the connection to the internet is down but fails when
the connection is up, then maybe you have something using the connection
that is using too much memory/processor resources to allow k3b to
operate.  Do you see any (unexplained) activity on the ethernet
connection when it's up?  Also, run 'top' in a terminal window to check
on resource usage by k3b when the net is up and when it's down.

HTH,
Ed
-- 
Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

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