[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#574543: k3b: K3B fails to register any writable DVD-RAM devices, even though wodim does so easily.

[Willy Gommel]

Package: k3b
Version: 1.90.0~rc1-1
Severity: important

k3b is persistently telling me that I have no DVD-RAM drives present. This is surprising because Wodim -scanbus has been doing so for many hours now. k3b keeps wanting me to start hal, which is in fact running already -- it ha sbeen since I deleted my chroot stack a couple of weeks ago after K3B told me that it was inhibited by the presence of a running chroot.

N.B.: Deleting a chroot stack does not appear to be the innocuous easy operation I expected. When I did so, it in fact deleted my entire home directory, too.

At any rate, k3b appears to be useless in its present state. And I need the convenience of k3b as opposed to the many, many options of wodim. Thank you very much!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages k3b depends on:
ii  cdparanoia               3.10.2+debian-9 audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  cdrdao                   1:1.2.2-18.1    records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) 
ii  genisoimage              9:1.1.10-1      Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  k3b-data                 1.90.0~rc1-1    A sophisticated CD/DVD burning app
ii  kdebase-runtime          4:4.3.4-2       runtime components from the offici
ii  kdelibs5                 4:4.3.4-3       core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.4.2-9       GCC support library
ii  libk3b6                  1.90.0~rc1-1    The KDE CD/DVD burning application
ii  libkcddb4                4:4.3.4-1       CDDB library for KDE 4 (runtime)
ii  libmusicbrainz4c2a       2.1.5-4         Second generation incarnation of t
ii  libqt4-dbus              4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network           4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-qt3support        4:4.5.3-4       Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 
ii  libqt4-svg               4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 SVG module
ii  libqt4-webkit            4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 WebKit module
ii  libqt4-xml               4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4               4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                4:4.5.3-4       Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6               4.4.2-9         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  wodim                    9:1.1.10-1      command line CD/DVD writing tool

Versions of packages k3b recommends:
ii  dvd+rw-tools                7.1-6        DVD+-RW/R tools
ii  libk3b6-extracodecs         1.90.0~rc1-1 The KDE CD/DVD burning application
ii  vcdimager                   0.7.23-4+b2  A VideoCD (VCD) image mastering an

Versions of packages k3b suggests:
pn  k3b-extrathemes               <none>     (no description available)
pn  k3b-i18n                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  movixmaker-2                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  normalize-audio               <none>     (no description available)
pn  sox                           <none>     (no description available)

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