On 07/03/2016 08:10 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-07-03 10:38, tech@reachthetribes.org wrote:
On 07/03/2016 01:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Suggestion:
Tell your mail program (Thunderbird?) what your name is. Or how do you want to be called, so that it writes the From as:
Somebody <mail@someplace.com>
That way, the first line above will be changed to something like:
"On 2016-07-03 10:38, somebody wrote:"
Advantages? We know how to address you, your address is not written that often to the web archive for spammers to collect...
Ok, thanks, I changed it to "George from the tribe..."
Ah, you are waiting for a popup to happen. Why not simply start the burner, and see what it says about the blank?
You know, sometimes the simplest suggestions solve problems. I tried it and it worked! Great! I guess I assumed that because there was no popup, and bringing up k3b didn't automatically look at the blank disc in the drive, it wasn't going to work. I feel slightly foolish on that, but glad to have it solved.
It would be then a different kind of problem.
Ok, I put the blank dvd in the drive in kde while running 42.1. No read on the drive as far as the popup is concerned. Running fdisk -l doesn't give anything either.
It never will. It is not formatted, it is blank. Totally blank.
So I started K3B, and nothing pops up.
Correct.
So in K3B I went to the device menu and clicked "Media Info", and here are the results:
Type: DVD-R Sequential Media ID: CMC MAG. AM3 Capacity: 510:38:38 min (4.4 GiB) Rewritable: no Appendable: no Empty: yes Layers: 1 Sessions: 0 Supported writing speeds: 6.0x (8310 KB/s) 8.0x (11080 KB/s) 12.0x (16620 KB/s) 16.0x (22160 KB/s)
Well, it is correct. You can write to it, it is empty. Why didn't you try to burn to it?
Wish I had tried that before! Glad you suggested it.
I know the blank dvd is not damaged, because one that I was just using did the same thing yesterday, but I really needed to burn something. So I booted into 13.2 and burned the dvd that I needed, then booted back into 42.1. Even though it says it is not rewritable, I know that it is because it will say the opposite if I load it up in 13.2
A DVD-R is NOT re-writeable. It is writeable. There is a difference.
Given that I am seeing the exact same effects on 2 different computers with completely different hardware, I am thinking that somebody out there has to have already experienced the same thing. But there aren't even any bugs that I could find on bugzilla for this same problem. How often do people burn cds and dvds nowadays anyways?
I see no bug. Only that you do not get a popup.
Have you yet replaced wodim with cdrecord tools, as suggested?
I uninstalled wodim, and zypper forced it to also uninstall k3b. So then I installed cdrecord, and then I had to reinstall k3b. But it worked. One kind of quirky thing with k3b is that it says it cannot burn mp3s to audio disc now as the mp3 libraries (called libmad) is missing. I didn't try to troubleshoot this at the moment, except to do a zypper search for libmad, and I found that my system does have libmad0 installed. That should do it for k3b I assume, but it apparently isn't detecting it. For another day. Thank you to all that helped.
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