K3B - IO Error

[egg_just_egg]

I tried making a CD from Amorak and I was greeted with a error in K3B that said the following.
IO Error. Most likely no space left on harddisk.
When I click on the debugger report I get no information about an error. I've made disks in the past so I probably borked something but I can't figure out how to chase it. I get the same error if I open from the menu or from cmd prompt. I tried purging from aptitude and re installing to no avail.
If someone could help me on this adventure I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

[integr8e]

Re: K3B - IO Error

Do you have ample room on your hard drive? I've run into backup problems before in which the program I was using duplicated its backup every time it ran, so it literally filled up my 200gb hdd; it left me with only about 60mb to operate on. If you don't know how to check, open Konsole and type 'df -h'.

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned that in my googling for a solution I checked things like that. I have 59GB on my HD. I haven't found anything so far that gives me an idea where to look for this. It's definitely not what the error says though.

[SheeEttin]

Re: K3B - IO Error

Tried running "k3b" from a console?

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

Yeah, same error message. See if this means anything to you.
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 170
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 170
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance )
(K3bDevice::HalConnection) initializing HAL >= 0.5
Mapping udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_CD_ROM_F565E to device /dev/hdd
Mapping udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_LITE_ON_DVDRW_SHW_160P6S to device /dev/hdc
/dev/hdd resolved to /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd is block device (64)
/dev/hdd seems to be cdrom
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: init()
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: MODE SENSE (5a)
errorcode: 70
sense key: ILLEGAL REQUEST (5)
asc: 24
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: MODE SENSE length det failed.
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: MODE SENSE (5a)
errorcode: 70
sense key: ILLEGAL REQUEST (5)
asc: 24
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: MODE SENSE with real length 65535 failed.
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: modeSense 0x05 failed!
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: Cannot check write modes.
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: MODE SENSE (5a)
errorcode: 70
sense key: ILLEGAL REQUEST (5)
asc: 24
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: MODE SENSE length det failed.
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: MODE SENSE (5a)
errorcode: 70
sense key: ILLEGAL REQUEST (5)
asc: 24
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdd: MODE SENSE with real length 65535 failed.
/dev/hdc resolved to /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc is block device (0)
/dev/hdc seems to be cdrom
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: init()
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: CD Mastering
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: CD Track At Once
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: DVD Read (MMC5)
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: DVD+R
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: DVD+RW
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: DVD+R Double Layer
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: DVD-R/-RW Write
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: Rigid Restricted Overwrite
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc feature: Layer Jump Recording
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: dataLen: 60
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for TAO
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for SAO
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for SAO_R96P
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for SAO_R96R
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for RAW_R16
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for RAW_R96P
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: checking for RAW_R96R
(K3bDevice:eviceManager) setting current write speed of device /dev/hdc to 8467
/dev/hdd resolved to /dev/hdd
(K3bDevice:eviceManager) dev /dev/hdd already found
/dev/hdc resolved to /dev/hdc
(K3bDevice:eviceManager) dev /dev/hdc already found
(K3bDevice:eviceManager) found config entry for devicetype: CD-ROM F565E
(K3bDevice:eviceManager) found config entry for devicetype: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160P6S
Devices:
------------------------------
Blockdevice: /dev/hdd
Generic device:
Vendor: CD-ROM
Description: F565E
Version: 1.07
Write speed: 0
Profiles: CD-ROM
Read Cap: CD-ROM
Write Cap: Error
Writing modes: None
Reader aliases: /dev/hdd
------------------------------
Blockdevice: /dev/hdc
Generic device:
Vendor: LITE-ON
Description: DVDRW SHW-160P6S
Version: PS01
Write speed: 8467
Profiles: DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW
Read Cap: DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RW, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW
Write Cap: DVD-R, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RW, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-R, CD-RW
Writing modes: SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump
Reader aliases: /dev/hdc
------------------------------
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection:perator+=(): function is severely deprecated.
DiskInfo:
Mediatype: CD-R
Current Profile: CD-R
Disk state: empty
Empty: 1
Rewritable: 0
Appendable: 0
Sessions: 0
Tracks: 0
Layers: 1
Capacity: 79:57:74 (LBA 359849) (736970752 Bytes)
Remaining size: 79:57:74 (LBA 359849) (736970752 Bytes)
Used Size: 00:00:00 (LBA 0) (0 Bytes)
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc: Number of supported write speeds via 2A: 6
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc : 8467 KB/s
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc : 7056 KB/s
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc : 5645 KB/s
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc : 4234 KB/s
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc : 2822 KB/s
(K3bDevice:evice) /dev/hdc : 1411 KB/s

[Snowhog]

Re: K3B - IO Error

:P K3b is a GUI application, so if you want to try firing it off from a console, use:

kdesu k3b

provide your password and see if the results are the same. You will still get errors within the console window, but they will be A LOT fewer, and K3b will load (after you provide your password).

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

Allright, thank you, that worked. But I expect that doing something as root would work always (you'd hope). I might try making another user and see if it's an account thing.
Nest question, which errors do I care to chase? I don't want to be root just to write a disk.

[Snowhog]

Re: K3B - IO Error

You should not have to. K3b, if fully installed, is found in K Menu | Multimedia
Just click and it will load.

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

You lost me Snowhog.
My problem is that if I run K3B I get the error. Yes I can select it from the menu and yes Amorok brings it up but K3B won't work. Apparently I can use it as root which is what "kdesu" does but my question is how do I chase this error?
I see a line that says "kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection:perator+=(): function is severely deprecated." Is there a degradation of KDE to look for?

[Snowhog]

Re: K3B - IO Error

It's all a learning process. Heck, it's even more challenging when you have to do the learning 'over the 'net'. Try this (to see if you have the right package installed) in the browser (you are using Konqueror, yes?): in the URL window type apt:/ and press enter. Do you get the KDE Search Form page?

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

yes I do.

[Snowhog]

Re: K3B - IO Error

Egg-cellent!

On the Seach Form page, type K3b in the Offline search Package search box and press enter. On the next page (at the top), click on k3b. Compare the resulting Depends to those below (mine):

Depends

kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.5-1), libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94), libdbus-qt-1-1c2 (>= 0.62.git.20060814), libdvdread3 (>= 0.9.6), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8 ), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2), libhal1 (>= 0.5), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libjpeg62, libk3b2 (>= 1.0), libmusicbrainz4c2a (>= 2.1.4), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), wodim | cdrskin, cdparanoia (>= 3a9.8 ), genisoimage, kdelibs-data (>= 4:3.1.4-2), kdebase-bin, cdrdao (>= 1.1.7-5), transcode, libdvdcss2

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

eggcellent, very funny. I like your latitude. (pun intended, loved Anchorage).

My results match yours.

Starting to lean toward KDE being borked as the problem. I can't log out to try user privileges with another user, when I do X dies and returns to cmd prompt.

[Snowhog]

Re: K3B - IO Error


I've been living in Alaska for more than 30 years - total - so far. Born in California.

Okay, so your K3b install is identical to mine. Good. Means that you have all the same dependencies K3b needs. But you say you can't successfully logout of X (KDE Desktop) eggs-actly what steps are you taking to logout?

[egg_just_egg]

Re: K3B - IO Error

To log out I click kmenu, then click "log out". X goes away and all I have is the command prompt at a terminal screen with user name. No users choice or logged out screen with the options (kde/gnome/last).
Is it possible to uninstall/ reinstall kde or is it reinstall Kubuntu time?