Dear Chris, Thanks! Your explanation of the problem was crystal clear. regards, Robert Storey On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:56:40AM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote:
Lately, I have been getting the weirdest error when I attempt to backup my data onto a CDR. I found a workaround so my situation isn't desperate, but I still don't understand why this is happening, and I'd be curious to know if others have seen this problem. The odd thing is that this problem didn't exist until about a week ago - before that, CD burning worked fine.
Using Xcdroast (running under KDE), when I click on the button where it says "Calculate Size", I get this error message:
Using 000.BASHRC;1 for /home/bob/pythonguido/.bashrc~ (.bashrc) mkisofs: Error:
/home/bob/.kde2/share/apps/kio_http/cache/u/us.a1.yimg.
com_us.yimg.com_a_pr_providian_financial_210235_gscc_
greystripe.gif:19c1eb25 and /home/bob/.kde2/share/apps/
kio_http/cache/u/us.a1.yimg.com_us.yimg.com_a_pr_providian
_financial_210235_gscc_benefitsblue.gif:5bf6e6c9 have the same Joliet name mkisofs: Joliet tree sort failed.
Filenames for Joliet format CDs can be as long as 128 bytes (which, since UniCode characters are used, means 64 characters). What is happening is that the filenames for both these files are being truncated at the 64th character (which happens to be the last similar character that the two files have ;-> ). Both filenames are truncated to: us.a1.yimg.com_us.yimg.com_a_pr_providian_financial_210235_gscc_ Since these two filenames are both the same, the sort fails. I don't know why this hasn't happened before... luck I suppose. Or maybe you only recently starting browsing the web through konqueror or whatever. There's nothing much else you can do about this (apart from excluding your browser cache from the backup, which shouldn't cause any problems).
Since Xcdroast cannot calculate the size of the CD image, at this point I can't proceed any further to create the image, so it's a fatal error.
My workaround: I cd into the above-mentioned directory, /home/bob/.kde2/share/apps/kio_http/cache/u/ and type "rm *". Since this appears to be a cache directory, deleting these files doesn't seem to hurt anything. Once I've done this, I can burn the CD.
Hope that helps, Chris __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/