Thanks for your reply Joerg. A defective and illegal fork from ubuntu core developers?
$ dpkg-query -p wodim Package: wodim Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Installed-Size: 844 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: i386 Source: cdrkit Version: 9:1.1.6-1ubuntu6 Replaces: cdrecord, cdrtools-doc Provides: cdrecord Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcap1 Recommends: genisoimage Suggests: cdrkit-doc Conflicts: xcdroast (<< 0.98+0alpha15-11) Size: 430966 Description: command line CD/DVD writing tool wodim allows you to create CDs or DVDs on a CD/DVD recorder. It supports writing data, audio, mixed, multi-session, and CD+ disc and DVD data and video disks on DVD capable devices, on just about every type of CD/DVD recorder out there. . Please install cdrkit-doc if you want most of the documentation and README files. Original-Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:48:06 +0100 > From: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de > To: zoubi...@hotmail.com; cdwrite@other.debian.org > Subject: Re: cdrecord floating point exception > > Parker Jones <zoubi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm trying to burn a DVD+RW with cdrecord and get a floating point > > exception. Can't make out what the error means. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Parker > > > > > > Platform Ubuntu 8.10 i386 > > ii wodim 9:1.1.6-1ubuntu6 command line CD/DVD > > writing tool > > > > > > $ cdrecord -v -dao speed=1 dev=/dev/dvd newworld.iso > > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > > wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK > > limits.scsidev: '/dev/dvd' > > devname: '/dev/dvd' > > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > > Wodim version: 1.1.6 > > You are not using cdrecord but a defective and illegal fork. > > BTW: This fork does not support DVD writing correctly. > > Upgrade to recent original software from > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy the last moments of summer. Meet someone fun to play with at Match.com http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fdating%2Enz%2Emsn%2Ecom%2Fchannel%2Findex%2Easpx%3Ftrackingid%3D1048628&_t=773568480&_r=nzWINDOWSliveMAILemailTAGLINES&_m=EXT
