> > > > I'm not sure if this problem specifically concerns Trinity. I > > > > generally burn CDs and DVDs with k3b, and almost never use any other > > > > program. > > > > > > > > (I'm using the k3b-trinity packages.) I considered trying to use the > > > > non-Trinity version of k3b, or to boot into a KDE desktop instead of > > > > TDE, to see if that works. However, I also tried with Brasero, and > > > > had similar problems, so I'm guessing that the problem is not just > > > > with Trinity. > > > > > > > > No problem at all burning DVDs, including dual-layer. (I don't know > >> > > >> > about Blu-Ray, but I don't use them.) Whenever I try to burn CDs, > >> > however, k3b goes through the whole process, creating image, > >> > normalisation, etc., then crashes before it actually burns the CD. > >> > > > > > I ought to say that these are audio CDs. I've tried burning flac and > > > > wav files to CD, both with the same bad results. Also, a few weeks > > > > back, I tried to copy a large collection of mp3 files to a DVD as a > > > > data disc, but the program crashed before it could complete, and > > > > ruined the disc. I don't know if that incident could be related or > > > > not. > > > > > > > > It occurs to me to try to write a CD from the command-line, using > > > > growisofs or the like, but I've never done that before. > > > > > > > > I'm running Debian Jessie 8.8.0 and Trinity r14.04. > > > > > > > > Any help or observations would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > Bill On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Kate Draven <borglabs4@...> wrote: > > > 1. You likely did this but just in case, just k3b's perms setup/ > > > 2. Check all related perms (dvdrecord, cdr* etc). > > > 3. See if you can complete a burn as root (if you can, it's a perm > > > problem) 4. Also try burning at half the adverted speed. > > > Because of today's corner cutting standards, disks are not always > > > adverted speeds. > > > > > > Let us know what happens and good luck, > > > > > > Kate > > I tried everything on your list except burning as root. I try to avoid > that, but I suppose if I disconnect from the Internet, I can minimize any > risk. > > Right now I am going through my permissions, to see if maybe I am not in > the burning group, etc. I looked at the help file, but there seem to be a > lot of instructions that refer to legacy items from the old KDE3 desktop, > so I need to find where it is in TDE. > > Anyway, I've been using k3b since about 2006, never with any problems. Once > I had got it set up just right, in fact, I haven't changed anything in my > configuration since then ... until now. I have always just cloned all my > settings from one home folder to another, from one computer to another, and > kept running either KDE3 or TDE. Now I have some weird issues: like how k3b > refuses to use my preferred theme, and keeps reverting to the default after > every reboot (except that every once in a totally random while it *does* > use it, just to tease me, and then again reverts to default). > > I never had to mess round with k3b, so now it's like I am a total n00bie > all over again. There used to be some configuration files kept in > /home/~/.kde/share/config/ > (k3brc, etc), but I don't know if they affect the k3b-trinity package or > not. I've looked for the corresponding file in > /opt/trinity/share/config.kcfg/ (I think ...?) > but nothing seems to fit. > > By the way, this kind of thing only happens to me whenever I starting > bragging on the virtues of GNU/Linux, or the TDE desktop, or something like > that. Then, when I want to show off what I can do, I immediately have > issues, and must excuse myself for a month or two, while I go into > seclusion to resolve my technical problems. I believe that there is some > kind of moral lesson here, but that I stubbornly keep trying to spread the > gospel of > enlightenment / liberation / free software to the ungrateful masses. > GNU/Linux is not really an operating system or type of software, but rather > a lifestyle, a secret cult, a mystical experience, reserved only to the > relatively pure of heart. > > Bill > Okay, now this is new: In k3b settings, under external programs, both sox and eMovix are listed as not found. I don't know about eMovix, as I can't find any packages that mention it, but sox is definitely installed; yet k3b persists in telling me that sox is not found. And here's another disconcerting detail. When I click on search path (still in k3b settings), I find that /opt/trinity/bin/ is not listed as a search path, but something called /opt/schily/bin/ *is listed*; I've looked round, but there is nothing I can find that corresponds to schily. Moreover, I delete the line to search the path for /opt/schily/bin/, and add the path /opt/trinity/bin/, yet when I restart I find that trinity is no longer there, but schily has returned. Apparently schily (or something related to it) is somehow connected to this problem. Also it seems that I need whatever schily provides (cdrkit, cdrtools, etc.), so for the time being, I've put this line back in for the search path. However, this schily seems to the a controversial topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_software_forks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cdrkit What the *$?%!&~ is schily? It seems to refer to a person named Joerg Schilling (see links above). In any case, I have no folders named schily, so the path points to nowhere that I can find in my system. Bill