Public bug reported:
What happened: WODIM refused to blank CD-RW media UNTIL i did so with official
cdrtools from Schily.
What I expected to happen: I expected WODIM to blank and write my CD-RW's.
Silly me.
How to repeat: Not sure. Since once using the offical cdrtools package, my
problem seems to have vanished. To be honest though, I had some major issues
trying to burn a CD-R the other day, and made a rather impressive selection of
coasters. THANKS, WODIM.
The long story:
I've been reading up on the debate between Schily and the Debian dev
team -- I have to admit I was biased from the start, thinking that
Schily was just pompous twit. My most sincere apologies to Mr Schily.
WODIM, installed in Intrepid, refused to blank CD-RW media, alternately
claiming that the device was in use and that it was unable to open the
scsi bus. The device WASN'T in use (DEFINITELY NOT mounted, or anything
else running against it). Rebooting (hey, it fixes Windows ;p ) didn't
help -- the problem persisted. Note that I also tried cdrskin, which is
supposed to be a thin wrapper aroung libburn, with the same results --
the device was permanently "locked". Note that this particular machine
has been upgraded (not reloaded) at least 3 times (7.10-8.04-8.10), that
I can remember. Perhaps more. And it's only been in 8.10 where this has
become an issue.
I downloaded Schily's 2.01.01a55 version of cdrecord, compile and
installed. K3b (yes, I use GNOME, but there is no burning GUI that I
have ever used (*nix or win32) which can compete with k3b, except
perhaps older versions of Nero (<6), before the dev team hired a pack of
turd-throwing, crack-smoking chimps to redesign what WAS a clear, usable
interface) picked it up without configuration (huzzah!), and I could
once again blank and write CD-RW media WITHOUT ISSUE. Oddly enough,
after having dispelled the bad juju, wodim decided to co-operate, and
will now blank and write CD-RW media. Not good enough for me -- I'm
leaving my Schily tools as the default in k3b.
Ubuntu already breaks the "total freedom" concept of Debian by providing
items such as the NVIDIA/ATI binary blobs and official Firefox artwork
(to name just the most commonly-known culprits). I have no problem with
this as it means that the average Joe user can get a working Linux
machine without having to rise to the status of 1337 h4x0r; this is good
for Linux and the user in general. My question then, is why are we still
subscribing to the broken wodim? I'm all for the Free alternative, but I
rather subscribe to Linus' approach: "free" or not, the BEST solution
always wins. And it's not like Schily's cdrtools isn't actually free --
it's just not GPL, but I have other licenses which live side-by-side on
my system (MPL, GPL, BSD, to name just a few). I just don't get how this
made it past QA (and I have a very high opinion of Ubuntu QA). For a
non-tech user out there, this would have been a show-stopper. A "switch
back to that crappy Other OS" moment.
Requested info:
output from 'lsb_release -rd'
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
** Affects: cdrkit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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WODIM is horribly broken -- seems Schily is right!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316500
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