Ah, it was hung waiting for me to close an err msg window. h aving closed that it now sorta works, but still won’t burn a CD. Instead it puts this in the progress window:
writing files to CD:
Writing CD-R
Could not find cdrecord executable
mkisofs crashed.
Trouble is, cdrecord exists.
[fredex@rockybox ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/cdrecord
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 26 May 3 2023 /usr/bin/cdrecord → /etc/alternatives/cdrecord
[fredex@rockybox ~]$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/cdrecord
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 May 3 2023 /etc/alternatives/cdrecord → /usr/bin/cdrskin
[fredex@rockybox ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/cdrskin
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 175216 May 25 2022 /usr/bin/cdrskin
[fredex@rockybox ~]$
which is the problem I’ve had with K3b all along since installing Rocky, i.e., cdrecord exists, but K3b insists it doesn’t.
As for why mkisofs crashes, I have, at this time, no clue. Is it a result of the “missing” cdrecord, or something else? I dunno.
[fredex@rockybox ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/mkisofs
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 25 May 3 2023 /usr/bin/mkisofs → /etc/alternatives/mkisofs
[fredex@rockybox ~]$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/mkisofs
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 May 3 2023 /etc/alternatives/mkisofs → /usr/bin/genisoimage
[fredex@rockybox ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/genisoimage
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 587128 Jan 19 2022 /usr/bin/genisoimage
[fredex@rockybox ~]$
same situation, apparently, where K3b doesn’t want to recognize the symbolic links.
attempting to burn an ISO image file gives exactly the same result.
I seem to recall that it USED to write audio to a CD, but now it doesn’t. it just hangs with:
Using cdrdao 1.2.4 - Copyright Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
Starting DAO writing at 48x speed…
then it hangs.
In none of the cases above does the “Show Debugging Output” button in the “Writing…” window show any errors.
in the terminal from which I started it, however, I see a bunch of stuff that means little to me:
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to ‘/tmp/runtime-root’
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to ‘/tmp/runtime-root’
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to ‘/tmp/runtime-root’
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to ‘/tmp/runtime-root’
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action “project_burn” “&Burn” set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action “project_properties” “&Properties” set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action “track_remove” “Remove” set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
kf.service.services: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType “ThumbCreator” not found
QObject::connect: No such signal KLineEdit::lostFocus()
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout “” to QFrame “”, which already has a layout
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout “” to K3b::EmptyDiscWaiter “”, which already has a layout
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout “” to K3b::EmptyDiscWaiter “”, which already has a layout
lsof: WARNING: can’t stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can’t stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc
Output information may be incomplete.
QIODevice::seek (K3b::AudioTrackReader): The device is not open
kf.kio.widgets.kdirmodel: No node found for item that was just removed: QUrl(“file:///root/k3b_audio_2_.toc”)
kf.notifications: Audio notification requested, but sound file from notifyrc file was not found, aborting audio notification
kf.kio.widgets.kdirmodel: No node found for item that was just removed: QUrl(“file:///root/k3b_audio_2_01.wav”)
QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.
I wonder particularly about the items I’ve bolded, above.
If you have any inspirations on what is wrong I’d LOVE to hear 'em! As it is when I need to burn I copy to a USB thumb drive and fire up an ANCIENT HP laptop and do the actual burns there.
Fred
