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kornelix (mikecorn-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 59506] Re: growisofs fails but reports good status

Paul,

Thanks for writing. Yes, the bug is still there in Ubuntu 7.10.

I never understood the "incomplete" status since I feel I provided
enough information to verify the bug.

I have characterized it a bit more: growisofs takes output from mkisofs
or genisoimage and writes to the DVD. The problem is that if mkisofs or
genisoimage terminate with a bad status, then growisofs also terminates
and reports a good status.

Try the following: use growisofs to copy a few big files (10+ MB) to a
DVD. When growisofs begins the first file, delete the last file in the
list before growisofs gets to it. mkisofs or genisoimage (whichever is
being used) will abort with an error message like "cannot open xxxx".
growisofs will terminate with a good status.

I tried also the forked growisofs project called wodim, but it has other
problems that force me to stay with growisofs for now.

thanks
Mike

Paul Dufresne wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: dvd+rw-tools (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Paul Dufresne (dufresnep)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>