cd burn pb with gnome on redhat

[arnaud janc <ajanc wanadoo fr>]

Hi,

I just want to share my experience on burning CD with gnome desktop on 
RedHat.

The RedHat is 7.3 with no patch at all.
I got a CDR Traxdata 12/10/32 firmware LSRA (/dev/hdc) and a DVD 
(/dev/hdd). Also I plug an Alcatel Speedtouch USB.

First I used the setting hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi in grub config.
This had for effect to fail burning on the run or even not to be able to 
start the burn because of OPC failure (this thing which recognize the 
kind of layer on the CD-R).

To fix this pb, I disable the scsi emulation on DVD. I know that it 
removes the possibility of CD to CD copy but it is not my main usage.

Then I was disappointed by the real speed of the burning. I used 
Xcdroast and even if I set the speed to 12X, it was only 8X or even 
sometimes 4X. Moreover It happens that everythings crash. While burning, 
X crash, so I switch to console mode and after logged in, I got messages 
like "cannot fork" on a simple ls command. At this point, CDR is lost 
and I got to manually reboot.

Here is a log:

Jan 26 14:47:30 Denis kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Jan 26 14:51:05 Denis kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
Jan 26 14:51:36 Denis last message repeated 26 times
Jan 26 14:53:19 Denis last message repeated 39 times
Jan 26 14:53:59 Denis last message repeated 17 times
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 
0x7 len 106 ret -110
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Modem hangup
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Connection terminated.
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Connect time 999.2 minutes.
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Sent 737127680 bytes, received 
2121595392 bytes.
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't release PPP unit: Invalid 
argument
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis last message repeated 2 times
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not 
supported
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
Jan 26 14:54:00 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device

Jan 26 14:54:39 Denis kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
...
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: Cannot 
allocate memory
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis pppd[2076]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis last message repeated 4 times
Jan 26 14:56:04 Denis Font Server[1141]: terminating
Jan 26 14:56:06 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:05 Denis apmd[876]: Exiting
Jan 26 14:56:06 Denis rpc.statd[764]: Caught signal 2, un-registering 
and exiting.
Jan 26 14:56:07 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:07 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:05 Denis cannaserver[1063]: Caught a signal(2)
Jan 26 14:56:07 Denis cannaserver[1063]: remove [/tmp/.iroha_unix/IROHA]
Jan 26 14:56:07 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:07 Denis xinetd[964]: Unexpected signal 2 (Interrupt)
Jan 26 14:56:07 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
jan 26 14:56:08 Denis su(pam_unix)[1931]: session closed for user root
Jan 26 14:56:08 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
jan 26 14:56:08 Denis su(pam_unix)[2041]: session closed for user root
Jan 26 14:56:08 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:16 Denis last message repeated 283 times
jan 26 14:56:16 Denis gdm(pam_unix)[1267]: session closed for user janc
Jan 26 14:56:16 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:16 Denis last message repeated 5 times
jan 26 14:56:16 Denis gdm[1267]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler : erreur X 
fatale - Redémarrage de :0
...
Jan 26 14:56:39 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:56:40 Denis last message repeated 47 times
jan 26 14:56:40 Denis gdm[1685]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler : erreur X 
fatale - Redémarrage de :0
jan 26 14:56:40 Denis gdm[617]: deal_with_x_crashes : exécution du 
script XKeepsCrashing
jan 26 14:56:40 Denis gdm[617]: Échec du démarrage du serveur X 
plusieurs fois en peu de temps; désactivé pour le visuel :0
...
Jan 26 14:57:02 Denis login(pam_unix)[32472]: session opened for user 
root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Jan 26 14:57:02 Denis  -- root[32472]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
Jan 26 14:57:02 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
...
Jan 26 14:57:33 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:57:35 Denis last message repeated 89 times
Jan 26 14:57:35 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:35 Denis xinetd[964]: Unexpected signal 2 (Interrupt)
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[5430]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[5431]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis xinetd[964]: Unexpected signal 2 (Interrupt)
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis last message repeated 2 times
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis init: cannot fork, retry..
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis xinetd[964]: Unexpected signal 2 (Interrupt)
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't get channel number: 
Input/output error
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Couldn't create new ppp unit: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis xinetd[964]: Unexpected signal 2 (Interrupt)
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 26 14:57:36 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:41 Denis last message repeated 542 times
Jan 26 14:57:41 Denis init: cannot fork, retry..
Jan 26 14:57:41 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 26 14:57:46 Denis last message repeated 557 times
Jan 26 14:57:46 Denis init: cannot fork, retry..
Jan 26 14:57:46 Denis pppd[2076]: Failed to create child process: 
Resource temporarily unavailable

We could see somethi,g try to access continuously to /dev/cdrom (while 
it was burning). After, pppd is not able to re-init, then cannaserver 
crash and xinitd and X and gdm till the moment when no fork is possible.

I read somewhere that gnome was a little bit to agressive when it try to 
automount cdrom. So I simply kill magicdev.

There is no more automount but there is no more crash too, which is the 
most important, we are not on M$ win-shit. Moreover the speed is now OK, 
12X asked on xcdroast gave 12X on real.

Arnaud