I have k3b installed, in a nutshell, it's a program that gives the cdrecord command a gui.

My problem is, when I start the program, it brings up a splash screen that says scanning for cdrom devices, and then it says starting gui, then nothing happens.

Anyone know what my problem might be?

Any help is appreciated.

edit: I'm running slackware 9.1 if it makes a difference.

For what it is worth: I once had a similar symptom, and clicking on the main window removed the splash screen. It looked like k3b was checking available hardware/packages, and then was just forgetting to hide the splash screen... The burning quality was not affected by this peculiarity. The system did have some package dependency issues (it was a mix of Debian Sarge and SID).

It didn't even bring up a main window behind the splash.

Perhaps I don't have all the dependencies.

ok i seem to have a similar problem
earlier accidentally opened a .cue file and k3b opened
but now when i try to open it on its own it freezes at the checking for cd drives

I also had the some of the same problems.

The burning utilitie worked perfect a couple of weeks ago, the something happened.

First the program behaved unstable. It would hang at some point during a burn process (This is the first time in years I've wasted a CDr due to a burning error). Then it started to hang at the splash screen, like described above.
In an attempt to fix this, I installed the latest version, 0.11.17
Now it will show the splash screen, then I'll see the main window in a fraction of a second before it shots down and dissapears.

I'm quite new to Linux. Can someone please give me a hint here.

Did you de-install the old version?

open a console and try running k3b like this :
when it acts up check the output in the console...the last few lines or so should give you an idea where it's hanging up at..

I did not deinstall the old version. I was told that the RPM package should resolve this. I'm planning to try that tonight. Maybe after trying that second tips.

OK, don't really know why it didn't work, but I uninstalling bot k3b and cdrecord and then reinstalled them from the distro cds. Now I didn't do any online updates, so I'm actually running older versions, but it works again.

Thanks for trying to help

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