[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#499295: k3b: Fails to write CDs on SATA writers

[Frank Otto]

Package: k3b
Version: 0.12.17-8
Severity: important


On a PC with a CD writer connected via SATA, etch's k3b fails to write
CDs, at least when writing precreated ISO images. wodim aborts with
"No such file or directory". This is caused by k3b calling wodim with the
device option "dev=1,0,0" which apparently doesn't work with SATA burners.
Correct option would be "dev=/dev/scd0".

A fix which should work on a wide variety of machines (even those with
IDE burners) is to create the file /usr/share/config/k3brc with the
following content:

[External Programs]
cdrecord user parameters=dev=/dev/cdrw

Well, it's a hack, because k3b then calls wodim like:
# wodim ... dev=1,0,0 ... dev=/dev/cdrw ...
but luckily the latter dev option takes effect. And of course this only
makes sense if there is only one CD writer in the system.

Note: the machine is not running an official Debian kernel, but
2.6.22.18. I can't rule out that this affects wodim's behaviour.

Regards,
Frank


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1000, 'stable'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.18-tc1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages k3b depends on:
ii  cdparanoia        3.10+debian~pre0-4     audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  genisoimage       9:1.1.2-1              Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  kdebase-bin       4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch1 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii  kdelibs-data      4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch1 core shared data for all KDE appli
ii  kdelibs4c2a       4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl1           2.2.41-1               Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2      2.3.17-1               Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1          2.4.32-1               Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2         1.8-4                  The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6             2.3.6.ds1-13etch4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.0.2-1                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-qt-1-1c2  0.62.git.20060814-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         1.95.8-3.4             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1    2.4.2-1.2              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6      2.2.1-5+etch2          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgamin0 [libfam 0.1.8-2                Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgcc1           1:4.1.1-21             GCC support library
ii  libhal1           0.5.8.1-9              Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6           1:1.0.1-2              X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11          0.6.5-1                GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62         6b-13                  The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libk3b2           0.12.17-8              The KDE cd burning application lib
ii  libmusicbrainz4c2 2.1.4-1                Second generation incarnation of t
ii  libpng12-0        1.2.15~beta5-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt         3:3.3.7-4etch1         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6            1:1.0.1-3              X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6        4.1.1-21               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6          2:1.0.3-7              X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1       1.1.7-4                X cursor management library
ii  libxext6          1:1.0.1-2              X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2           2.1.8.2-8              FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6            1:1.0.1-4              X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1      1:1.0.1-4.1            X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2        2:1.1.0.2-5            X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1       1:0.9.1-3              X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6            1:1.0.2-2              X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  wodim             9:1.1.2-1              command line CD/DVD writing tool
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3-13             compression library - runtime

Versions of packages k3b recommends:
ii  cdrdao            1:1.2.2-5              records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) 
ii  dvd+rw-tools      7.0-4                  DVD+-RW/R tools
ii  kcontrol          4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch1 control center for KDE
ii  kdebase-kio-plugi 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch1 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  vcdimager         0.7.23-3               A VideoCD (VCD) image mastering an

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