DVD burning issues (both in feisty and gutsy)

[borker]

Hi there, I'm having problems burning DVDs. This has been going on for a while in feisty and i always thought it had something to do with the fact I've got a sata/pata setup with the j-micron controller and was hoping the upgrade to gutsy's new kernel would help. It didn't... same problems occur in gutsy as in feisty and it doesn't matter if I'm running k3b as a user or as root. Here is the debug output from k3b

System
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K3b Version: 1.0.3

KDE Version: 3.5.7
QT Version: 3.3.7
Kernel:   2.6.22-12-generic
Devices
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HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N JL10 (/dev/scd0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump]

Burned media
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DVD+R

K3bIsoImager
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mkisofs print size result: 568622 (1164537856 bytes)
Pipe throughput: 33663744 bytes read, 33659392 bytes written.

Used versions
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mkisofs: 1.1.6
growisofs: 7.0.1

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/scd0: "Current Write Speed" is 16.4x1352KBps.
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
     0/1164537856 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=0h/ASC=00h/ACQ=02h]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error

growisofs command:
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/usr/bin/X11/growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:568622 -dvd-compat -speed=16 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m 

mkisofs
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568622
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
 0.09% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.18% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.26% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.35% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.44% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.53% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.62% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.71% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.79% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.88% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 0.97% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.06% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.15% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.23% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.32% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.41% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.50% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.58% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.67% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.76% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.85% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 1.94% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.02% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.11% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.20% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.29% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.37% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.46% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.55% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.64% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.73% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007
 2.82% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 28 14:14:50 2007

mkisofs calculate size command:
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/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid RWC -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-nathan/k3blFeoya.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-nathan/k3bZKbkQb.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-nathan/k3bCzAlMb.tmp -no-cache-inodes -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-nathan/k3b3TwMua.tmp 

mkisofs command:
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/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -volid RWC -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-nathan/k3bMkQyHa.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-nathan/k3bpXtaDa.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-nathan/k3bcdS7na.tmp -no-cache-inodes -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-nathan/k3bARiPuc.tmp

heres the relevant bit of dmesg

[ 1553.787440] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
[ 1616.749367] ata1.01: 16 bytes trailing data
[ 1678.060555] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 1678.060565] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x2a data 32768 out
[ 1678.060568]     res 40/00:02:00:28:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 1678.060583] ata1: soft resetting port
[ 1678.552247] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 1678.552264] ata1: EH complete
[ 1724.522220] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
[ 1725.245237] ata1.01: 16 bytes trailing data

and here is what my fstab shows

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>   <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=0de0f9dc-f352-4cb1-9d6a-842363f22788 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=df569cb3-85a2-40a1-bc94-b2ce3b20de8f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
192.168.0.20:/multimedia /mnt/multimedia nfs users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
192.168.0.20:/var/www/sites /mnt/wwwroot nfs users,noauto,atime,auto,rw,nodev,exec,nosuid 0 0

can anyone point me in the right (or for the bad pun lovers 'the write') direction to fix this? anymore info I can supply?

The drive is an LG that used to work fine a few releases ago...

thanks for any help
Nathan

[borker]

Re: DVD burning issues (both in feisty and gutsy)

fixed this sort of.... it seems to have been an issue with the source file names or volume name (not sure, which changed both and also turned off multisession at the same time) being too long or too freaky for growisofs I think. So the problem would either be with k3b putting together bad calls to growisofs / mkisofs etc or two those progs not being able to handle otherwise legit file names.

Is this something that should lead to a bug report upstream? has anyone else had a similar problem and know what the appropriate next step is?