k3b hangs on startup and cannot be killed

[vogelmann]

I am using Xubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).
When starting k3b, i get to see the starting screen but nothing else happens. Checking /var/log/messages, i get the following:

May 12 12:17:16 atropos kernel: [ 1417.433349] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
May 12 12:17:16 atropos kernel: [ 1417.433405] hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

Those messages continue and the starting screen remains on the display, as i am not able to kill the corresponding k3b-process:

r0bert@atropos:~$ ps -A | grep k3b
 9253 ? 00:00:00 k3b
r0bert@atropos:~$ sudo kill -9 9253
Password:
r0bert@atropos:~$ ps -A | grep k3b
 9253 ? 00:00:00 k3b

The only way I have found so far to get rid of this is to reboot the machine.
The following informations might be of relevance:

r0bert@atropos:~$ uname -a
Linux atropos 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
r0bert@atropos:~$ apt-cache policy k3b
k3b:
  Installiert:1.0-0ubuntu2
  Mögliche Pakete:1.0-0ubuntu2
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 1.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
r0bert@atropos:~$ sudo cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
RICOH CD-R/RW MP7163A
r0bert@atropos:~$ sudo cat /proc/ide/hdc/driver
ide-cdrom version 4.61
r0bert@atropos:~$ sudo cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
current_speed 66 0 70 rw
dsc_overlap 1 0 1 rw
init_speed 12 0 70 rw
io_32bit 1 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
number 2 0 3 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
unmaskirq 1 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw

The problem did not occur in Xubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake).

[Mario Đanić (mario-danic)]

Thank you for taking your time to report this bug. Can you reproduce in gutsy?
Anyone to confirm this bug on feisty?

[denver (gaby-rohost)]

i get the same error in /var/log/messages

Jul 21 00:37:23 rossak kernel: [ 488.580000] hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Jul 21 00:37:23 rossak kernel: [ 488.580000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown

for the sake of conserving space...i did not include the rest of the lines similar to these 2 ( there are 30 MB worth of error messages lithe this ).

I haven't tried gutsy as the laptop i'm working from is for work related activities...but this is really anoying ...as i cant user the CD/DVD drive in this thing.

If you want to kill the process using your writer you might want to issue the comand:

hdparm -w /dev/hdc

to do an ATAPI reset on the drive...and after that try to kill k3b

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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