Re: Mkisofs - seek error on old image

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Giuseppe Corbelli wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > "Giuseppe \"Cowo\" Corbelli" <cowo@lugbs.linux.it> wrote:
> >
> > > Last step fails:
> > >
> > > mkisofs -C 1273136,1284368 -M /dev/sr0 -R -J 
> > > /amps/backups/flexbackup/ -v -o test.iso
> > >
> > > Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-15' from locale.
> > > DEBUG: startsec 1273136 startbyte 2607382528
> > > mkisofs: Invalid argument. Seek error on old image
> >
> > Without knowing the parameters to lseek64 here, I would guess this is 
> > a defective previous session os a linux kernel bug.
>
> Mmm. That's why I added the DEBUG output
>
> scsi.c:111
>
> lseek(f, 2607382528, SEEK_SET)
>
> How can I test the previous session? It has been written successfully 
> by growisofs.
First, as I'm sure your checked, your seek address is a multiple of 2k. 
So it's on a sector boundary.

Are you sure that your system doesn't try to mount or check a DVD when 
you put it in the drive? Some of this is in the window manager and some 
in udev, although once I told the WM not to ever look at an optical 
media I stopped having warnings. udev hasn't caused problems that way, 
Fedora [678] in use here.


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