Bug#266912: kernel-image-2.6.8: Kernel 2.6.8 breaks DVD-Writing

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:16:49PM +0200, Andreas Neudecker wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
> Version: 2.6.8-1
> Severity: normal
> File: kernel-image-2.6.8
> 
> After upgrading to kernel 2.6.8 I could suddenly not burn DVDs any more.
> On the homepage of 'K3B', my buring tool, I found a note saying that
> actually a new bug in the kernel prevents this from working. An added
> update note says the kernel team is working on this and the bug should be
> gone in the next version.

kernel developer consensus seems to be that this is not a kernel bug, but a
bug in the userland. Christoph, do you think we should split this bug report
and fill it against cdrecord or all other CD burning packages ? 

> My only remedy was downgrading to kernel 2.6.7 as provided on the Sarge
> netinstaller CD image.

Indeed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther