[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2010-12-03 Thread Schily
daf: Unfortunately Debian did break their promise after trying to delay a definitve action for a long long time. Fortunately, there are other users that are unhappy with the problems in cdrkit and created a Ubuntu binary package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2010-12-01 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for cdrkit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: cdrkit (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316500

[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2009-04-20 Thread Schily
Why should someone use cdrskin as long as there is a maintained working version of the original cdrtools? BTW: There are many problems with wodim: - it is based on a very old version of cdrtools (~ 4 years) - it's maintainers added plenty of bugs because these people do not grok enough from

[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2009-04-20 Thread daf
All I can say is Huzzah. Actually, I can say more. Something along the lines of about time too. Thomas: Sorry I couldn't provide more information. Please excuse the acidity of my original posts. The first was out of sheer frustration and the second was in response to a backhanded RTFM, which was

[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2009-04-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
I'm developer of cdrskin and quite late with this comment, i fear. But for the records: Without seeing the original error message of cdrskin, i can only guess that the problem is some O_EXCL usage of the drive (by some automat). One can keep cdrskin from respecting such Linux specific locks by

[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2009-01-12 Thread Florian Diesch
** Summary changed: - WODIM is horribly broken -- seems Schily is right! + WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media -- WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316500 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 316500] Re: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media

2009-01-12 Thread daf
Thank you for pointing me at an old article about how to report bugs. Fortunately for me, I am a software developer myself, and I have an understanding of what is required to report a bug (and, sometimes, to my delight, how to fix one too). Unfortunately for this bug report, I did provide all of