[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#693620: Bug#693620: dvdisaster does not start

[Karsten Malcher]

Hi,

Am 19.11.2012 01:03, schrieb Rogério Brito:
> Hi.
>
> On Nov 18 2012, Karsten Malcher wrote:
>> i just tried to use dvdisaster - without success.
>> The application just hangs and does not start.
>> Every process i started could not be killed manually with "kill -9" !
> If a given process doesn't get killed even with signal 9, then it is
> probably the case that the process is in the D state and the kernel is
> waiting for some device (or IO) to fulfill a request.

In this case this must have happen.

>
> Are you trying to create the image of a badly scratched CD/DVD?

Yes - but this CD was nearly fresh burned without any visible defects.

>   What if you
> do the same operations without dvdisaster? Say, what if you create the image
> with ddrescue? Do you still get uninterruptible processes?

For one time i was able to read the CD.
There is only one file with 20 MB on it.
It seems to be pure accident when this problem happens.

>
> Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this myself and I see that Michael has
> already tagged this as unreproducible and moreinfo, which is certainly
> appropriate here, as we have too few details to continue debugging.
>
>
> Regards,
>

Yes - this is only one of this crazy one-time-bugs.

Regards
Karsten