From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 30 18:16:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3102A16A41F; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:16:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuck@pkix.net) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B6643D46; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:16:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuck@pkix.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB8A5E97; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:16:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79492-01; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:16:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E395C54; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:16:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42EBC3F1.5040501@pkix.net> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:16:17 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <20050730055013.GA57362@localhost.local> <20050730062425.GK75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050730062425.GK75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: cdelsey@qwest.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:16:20 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: >> I was trying to use growisofs to write to a DVD-RAM and it kept >> seg faulting. It worked fine with a DVD-R. >> >> I tracked the problem down to place in the code where growisofs >> tries to perform an operation on a file handle it has already >> closed. >> >>I've implemented a workaround already. The problem is, that by my >>reckoning, this should affect anybody who is trying to use a DVD-RAM >>(not DVD+RW) with FreeBSD, but I haven't found any references to the >>problem on the net. > > My guess is that DVD-RAM isn't popular enough, and that people who > have had problems with it haven't had the understanding to track the > bug down. dvd+rw-tools doesn't support -RAM as well as other formats, in part because the {+,-}R(W) formats are much more common, in part because there are some pretty serious quirks in the older drives, but improvements would be welcome. >> I'm wondering if anybody else has seen this problem, and if you've >> found some other workaround for it? Or alternatively, you still have >> the problem and my patch would be useful to you. :-) > > Is this a workaround or a fix? The latter is obviously preferable. > Also, does this only affect FreeBSD, or is it general? In the former > case, contact the maintainer (mail address in the Makefile); in the > latter, contact the project. I'd be happy to review or test them first if you'd like, but any changes of this sort really ought to go upstream to Andy Polyakov or to the cdwrite mailing list at . -- -Chuck