Anybody else have problems after the latest Fedora 8 updates?

It seems that I cannot get any burning software to work corretly, I have Nero 3.021, Gnome Baker, and Brasero all not work with my LG HL-10 DVD writer.

Needless to say they worked perfect 2 days (before the updates) ago.....

Many like k3b for the burning application, it does work with Gnome even if it is a KDE application:

yum install k3b

http://k3b.plainblack.com/

I don't belief that the problem is the actual writer software, if 3 software packages not work after a kernel update it is most of the time a much bigger problem.

Installing k3b was therefore as expected useless, still the drive refuse to see empty CD's, the light of the drive keeps blinking etc....

(If I boot into Ubuntu 7.10 also on the same machine, the drive works as normal with the same software, so no hardware failures)

are you using the kernel: kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8? I can't print with this new kernel, but the printer works fine on kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8. I think maybe the problem is due to the new kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8. When your PC boot up, using kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 or older, this may help you solve your problem.

I posted the same problem over here - others have the same issue but no solutions.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=177025

I'm not sure if its an update to F8 that caused it or something from simply upgrading from FC6 to F8.

Tony

Two month (and may YUM updates) later, I'm now burning DVD's just fine with F8. I think I saw some updates to DVD type packages go by so it appears all is good again.


Tony

Keep well away from K3b if, like me, you value the Gnome GUI rather than the dreadful KDE one. I had to do a couple of clean re-installs of FC8 after trying to download&install K3b after an upgrade.

I got used to K3b - it worked quite well in FC3>4>5 and I liked it - in an earlier RH/FC incarnation of this box but it eventually wound up "killing" FC5 - FC5 would eventually only boot up using KDE - no thanx !!

A linux upline here on LQ identified the prob for me : K3b seems to assume the KDE GUI and I guess tends to "corrupt" the Gnome one.

I am now fiddling around with Brasero and GnomeBaker - seem OK so far - touch wood :-)

PaulW

Paul

I would suspect you have other problems. I have been running K3b on Gnome since FC4 (F8 now) without any issue. I burn roughly 200 DVDs per month. What repos are you using?

Lazlow

Yeah - so had I been running, and enjoying using, K3b on Gnome from FC3 or maybe even RH? - I can't remember in what RH/FC incarnation it appeared - and wasn't having probs with it except for the fact that it couldn't seem to be able to verify what it had written - just came up with an error message every time at that point in the process.

But my FC5 eventually died - no GUI happening after the udev point in bootup after a few weeks of only being able to get into the FC5 OS using the awful KDE GUI - because an upgrade disappeared the "failsafe Gnome" session option from the login screen dammit!
And the inference from another linux upline here on LQ was that it might have been K3b. And a good working FC7 was also killed, I'm fairly sure, because of trying to install K3b on it.

And after a clean (ie onto a formatted partition) install of FC8 and when it was running fine that new installation also died after trying to download/install K3b - the first app I tried to install after getting the OS up and running. Hence proving that K3b was 90+% certainly the cause of the probs I'd been having. So it's garlic and crosses stuff for me with K3b from now on :-)

I might 10%- be wrong and I'd like to be corrected if so. But what's a repo??

TIA
Paul W

A repo is where Fedora stores its software for the OS. How are you installing K3b? Hopefully you are using yum (or one of its front ends).