On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:28:32AM +1000, Brad Thomson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001 08:39, Geoffrey Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've been using cdrecord with out problems for some time but last night
> > it stopped working; I hope someone can pass a clue as to what the error
> > message indicates:
> >
> > mintie:/home/geoffrey/linuxcare.bbc# cdrecord -v dev=0,5,0 speed=8 bbc1-6.iso
> > Cdrecord 1.10a18 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling
> > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero.
> > mintie:/home/geoffrey/linuxcare.bbc#
> >
> > I wondered if I had used up all my zeros... but
> >
> > geoffrey@mintie:~$ ll /dev/zero
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 May 16 08:21 /dev/zero
> >
> > clues?
>
> Are you running Debian unstable? The latest cdrecord, as of a couple of
> weeks ago did this to me too... I copped out and downgraded to the testing
> (apt-get install cdrecord/testing) as I don't have time right now to nut out
> stupid stuff <g>
>
> Brad.
Thanks Brad, that was it; cdrecord/testing back working. Must have
"up" graded to cdrecord/unstable in my sleep.
geoffrey
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