I was able to burn CD's in Karmic RC, but not in KK final

[ankspo71]

Thanks FredMcD,

But I already went back to Jaunty so I can burn cds. I had a look at my boot menu and all I see are generic kernels, no i386 in the list. I have my recovery options too. I could swear (sware?) my Karmic installation had the same choices. I went back to jaunty because Gnomebaker quit burning. I'm willing to wager that it's a problem with my hardware setup because it uses VIA (chipsets etc). I have been hearing that this brand is not the best for linux.

Thanks,
James

[tai133]

I don't think it is your chipset because I am having the same problem on a Shuttle SNGv3 with Nvidia chipset. Everything worked fine in Jaunty. Now the disk burns and K3b reports success, but the disk is not readable or bootable. Just a coaster. I've attached my output from lshw.

[gilou]

Hello

I think burning in karmic is broken. I tried with k3b and in command line.

I have Ati chipset SB700/SB800, others guys have nvidia chipset.

Burning operations was ok in jaunty.

I've verified rights, purged k3b and cdrdao/wodim, reinstall, it's the same. Burning fails while simulating or writing in k3b and in all the other softwares.

We have to wait for updates or downgrade to jaunty. As for me I have a dual boot karmic/debian lenny and all is fine in lenny. This is no hardware fault.

gilou

[Shpongle]

yea im having the same problem too , guess well just have to wait

[johnnie69]

Hello!

More of this strange burning story... My case seems identical. In Jaunty burning cds/dvds was just a breeze, at some point in Karmic everything went to hell... It seems to me that it is a kernel or/and wodim issue.

I've burned many many, more than 10 cds/dvds with various methods and programs. And I always get successful writes BUT unreadable/unmountable media.

This is undoubtfully the worst problem I have ever faced with Ubuntu (at some point I've tried Debian 5 and it produces similar results).

An hdparm produces some interesting results similar to those posted in other threads concerning burning problems in Karmic, some IO failures.

[tiggsy]

Just seems to be proving that Karmic is not fit for purpose - which is a shame, as I much prefer koalas to jackals.

[tai133]

FWIW, all my problems went away with a clean install of Karmic. My old system had been updated several times, starting with 7.10 I think. I also had non-supported sources in my /etc/apt/sources.list, so this may have contributed to the problem.