Software :: Back End Of Growisofs (burning) Using Debian 5.0.4
May 7, 2010
I use growisofs to burn image or data files into DVDs. In its manpage it refered that it's a combined genisoimage frontend/DVD recording program. while in genisoimage's manpage
Note that genisoimage is not designed to communicate with the writer directly. Most writers have proprietary command sets which vary from one manufacturer to another, and you need a specialized tool to actually burn the disc. wodim is one such tool. The latest version of wodim is available from [URL]
So,genisoimage still is a front end program. so when my using growisfo to burn something, which bin was used to actually do the burning job? wodim? I am using debian 5.0.4
Using K3b 1.91.0 on Lucid in order to burn multitrack Video CDs.These burned fine before, and I made 5 working ones. Now having weird playback problem of burned VCDs first track looping back to the beginning instead of automatically advancing to later tracks. Same problem occurs on a variety of players including standalone DVD player. I can manually access the later tracks, but the later tracks don't continue automatically from track one.
The funny thing is that I'm using exactly the same mpeg VCD files that worked successfully before. I've got a feeling that the problem is some setting in K3b that I might have unintentionally changed, or else some nuance to how I'm adding the files to the project. I notice that when I add tracks to the project, a funny line always appears under a file name. Could that have anything to do with this problem? Also, would choosing "DAO" rather than "Auto" fix the problem? I'm tired of wasting the nice archival CD-Rs I bought!
To backup files residing on my system, I've been using mkisofs to create an empty iso file, and then populating it using growisofs: (in an empty directory)
This was working well for isos to be written to a single-layer DVD, but when I tried to add more data meant to be written to a dual-layer disc, I get this:
":-( next session would cross 4GB boundary, aborting..." I've done some searching and it seems that -use-the-force-luke should have helped, but doesn't. I assume the problems lies with mkisofs in creating an empty iso, but not sure how to get around it. I've only started dabbling with these tools in the past few days. Is it possible to create an empty iso with growisofs, or is there another way of creating an iso file that can contain enough data for a dual-layer disc? I really would like to be able to populate an empty iso as there are scripts involved & the availability of data being backed up might not be available immediately (data being sent for backup from other teams, for example).
I'm running hauppauge 2250 tuners (2 of them, 4 tuners total).I have the tuners set up and working although when booting up they worked intermitantly until I went through backend setup and restarted the frontend.I solved this by adding a 30 second sleep before backend startup and this seems to have fixed this.I'm still having trouble with burning and ripping dvds.I can play dvds in vlc and mythtv (mythtv since adding the sleep line). but when I try to burn a recording to dvd it fails on growisofs.I get an error 1.I've set the correct region with regionset and I have the dvd codecs.
I make a script to automate burning backup files on dvd. It works fine if I start it from root user, but if I start it. From cronjob do noting. I try on growisofs the option -use-the-force-luke=force but nothing happens. I check the env of cron:
HOME=/root LOGNAME=root PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin PWD=/root SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=1 XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=3e0d70f7b71074a0b1fff4bb4aa97d13-1281297181.926502-724038309 _=/usr/bin/env and it seems ok i've got my script in /usr/local/bin and growisofs in /usr/bin
Code of my script below: #!/bin/bash bkup_path='/bkrepo/'; prefix='PAR*'; totdimfile=0 for FILE in $(/bin/ls -r $bkup_path$prefix)
do dimfile=`/bin/ls -l $FILE | /usr/bin/awk -F " " '{print $5}' ` let "totdimfile += dimfile"; if [ "$totdimfile" -lt "4700000000" ] then NAMEFILE=`/bin/ls -l $FILE | /usr/bin/awk -F " " '{print $8}' ` ALLNAMEFILE="$ALLNAMEFILE $NAMEFILE"; fi done
/usr/bin/growisofs -use-the-force-luke=force -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J $ALLNAMEFILE /usr/bin/growisofs -M /dev/scd0=/dev/zero /usr/bin/eject end code of my script
I use the growisofs command from the terminal to do most of my burning. Mostly because i burn almost the exact same type of file every time so its pretty easy to set up. I've done this dozens of times and never once had a problem before. I loved it because it was so much simpler than doing this in windows where i would need to install a few extra programs and codecs. That was up until today where it started failing every single time i tried to burn something.
For some reason every time i try to burn a disc it gives me this error message:
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I'm really at a loss as to why this is happening. Every thread i found that discussed this problem was mostly focused on k3b or brasero and never really answered the question. As far as i know nothing has been updated since the last time i burned a disc a few days ago. Everything is exactly the same as it was when it worked. The only thing i could think of that might have caused this sudden failure is that i flashed the firmware of another cd drive using the same sata port that this drive is currently plugged into, but that was in windows so i dont see how it could have affected this drive.
I need to create backup of internal drive and write it on DVD. I want to do this in single command...like below: ntfsclone -f --save-image --overwrite - /dev/sda1 | growisofs -Z /dev/sr1=/dev/stdin
in above command, i tried to to create backup of first partition of internal drive and need to write this backup on DVD. But above command has some probolem due to which it could not write backup on DVD....and how to read from standard input in 'growisofs' command?
I run Debian 7.9, kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I have wodim, k3b and brasero installed on my system. I have a file called sound.wav on disk, which I want to burn onto a CD so it can be played on any regular music CD player. Brasero and k3b won't let me do that - I get error messages and the CD does not get written. I used to do it with cdrecord years ago, but as you probably know cdrecord is pretty much out of the game these days; I have wodim installed instead. but I don't know how to do it with wodim.
Does anyone experience burning problem with Brasero? At first, everything was great, but lately I receive all kind of messages (mounting problem, ejecting problem etc.) and burning is unsuccessful.
I like installing and trying out Linux distributions on my computer. However, rather than burn the .iso files to a CD or DVD, why not use free space on my hard drive instead? Is this possible? It would certainly make things easier on me.
I currently have installed Debian 5.0.7 and Linux Mint Debian Edition. For those who do not know, LMDE is based on Debian Testing and uses the same repositories. Also, I have 80GB free on a 300GB drive. Id like to use part of the space as an "installer partition", where I can install installer .isos, boot off that partition, and install from there onto the additional free space.
I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this pst or not, first on this forum. I just removed Fedora Core 4 from my system and installed Debian Sarge with the 2.6 kernel. I'm a newbie. The install seemed to go fine, after it was done I actually logged in and looked around some. I then restarted to check to make sure that my boot process went ok and I could still get to windows. Worked fine. Then I tried to boot back into Debian. It hung. I rebooted and tried again. Hung again in the same spot.
Keyboard had problems read article said remove xkb data package. Figured out how to do that in synaptic rebooted no Gnome just linux version of dos. I would like to install Kde or kbe desk top have more than enough ram and disk space. How do I get my gui back?
I recently installed SLiM and wanted to give it a try. I found out that XDM actually loads a bit faster on my machine, so I'm going to stick with it. I uninstalled SLiM, leaving XDM the only login manager on my system, but how can I change it back to the default? When my system boots up, I get the default console login.
With my windows pc, system restore made regular back up points. i could revert to a point in time or restore the whole system from scratch. the only prob was if thoes files got a virus you lost everything anyway. Not so good ill admit.With linux, ive spent several hours setting up wireless, sound and games. i dont want to loose all that time if something happens. being new to linux i dont see a back up feature or a way to save the current configuration i have. id hate as a new user to make a stupid mistake and blow the system and loose all my hard work any suggestions? id like to back up the system as it is so i can restore /copy back this set up if possible. whats the tool to use? does it exist in linux?
Recentrly my servers mysql has updated and now i have problems with my phpbb database. I cannot access some of the tables or back-up them. I did some research and founded that becouse of the update, my old my.cnf has been replaced and lost setiings for innodb. I founded the file, but i don't know how to make it work. I do not have a back-up of the old my.cnf
I am going to upgrade from debian 5.0 to 6.0 today. I have backedup my home directory by copying it to a external harddrive. There is no other files placed anywhere except for the home directory. Is there anything else i should upgrade that everyone does? Like back up the programs i have installed?
the OS has a partition size of 20GB and the home directory has 9GB of that.
Running Debian Squeeze and when I try to switch between gnome and a system terminal ctrl-alt-f1(etc) I just get a black screen. Any thoughts? I'm using the radeonhd xorg driver but don't think that should affect it.
I did a bunch of updates, in sid, no issues. But when I rebooted the next day the log in had chanded. No problems logging in, the appearance had changed, and you now have to use the mouse to click on your name to open the password box, where before you could hit enter and get the same results. It is not much, but I have been trying to to restore it back with out much luck. I've played with gdm and gdm3 and a couple of other things but no luck. I did see a update for log in but have not been able to figure out the next step.
I have made two partitions / and /home . / is where all the packages and other stuff lives and /home is where user i.e. my data lives. I am sure everybody knows the 'disk space is less' warning dialog box when either we install too many packages or when we download many things. Now the last time it happened by mistake I clicked on do not show more warnings. Now I want to have that warning dialog box back. looked at System > Preferences submenu as well as System > Administration but have not been able to find any info. on the same.
I installed Debian 5 hours ago, and I am fighting with it since then. I'll pass on the tons of issues I am encountering (wrong desktop environment (I asked for debian's, I got Gnome), shitload of various errors when doing basic things, resolution of a minitel).
The biggest issue I am having is that Grub is not listing Windows and I can't boot into it. I've tried os-prober and update-grub, the boot info script detects Windows 7 (it's windows 10 but, whatever), I've tried to boot into a windows repair USB stick and fix the mbr and boot through the cmd (which both returned success). I am currently trying to create boot-repair USB stick, but I keep getting errors about file systems not handling symbolic links...
How can I repair Windows boot (which seems to have been messed up by Debian's setup)..
Also, I am quite used to linux and unix systems, as I am dev and use Mac OS at work and used Ubuntu/Fedora for years, and I never had such a bad and messy experience with any of those OS...
Here is the boot-info generated with Boot-Repair-Disk [URL] .....
Now that I've [url="http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=48745"]destroyed[/url] the installation on my notebook, and a fresh install of Lenny with upgrade to Squeeze (to try out smxi) didn't work, I wanted to install Squeeze fresh.But not from a CD. That's too tired, and I've never actually installed from a USB stick.So I set out to do this, for it doesn't seem hard at all:
I even get to use cool-sounding commands like zcat, so this is way hipper than burning CDs, of which I have far too many lying around. Now here's the thing, it boots up and gets started, but the versions of don't match. I got both of them from the [url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/"]Debian-Installer page[/url] from netinst , both amd64, specifically: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd6 ... oot.img.gz (30 MB, don't click) and http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily ... etinst.iso (139 MB, don't click)
How on man's green web,then,do I make sure that I match up the correct versions of the netinstall image and the installer files?hangs head and slooowly reaches for CD spindle...
I want to back up my data on my MacBook Air using time machine. I have a desktop with Debian gnome installed where I want to store my back up data. But I can't manage to find a hard drive to start time machine on.
I have four hard drives installed in my Debian computer and I also want to share them over my home network. I am very new to Debian ...
I want to make a rescue disc for debian such that if anything goes wrong everything can be restored to its original condition. whatever extra packages are installed they should also be put back. most importantly zimbra and its dependencies.
On my laptop, squeeze has /, /boot, /usr, /home and I think /tmp /var on separate partitions. I want more space for apps and to not have to be so frugal with /home. Earlier this week I shrank sda1, freeing up 40 GB. I wanted to start moving the squeeze partitions, but GParted logically enough denied it since they were mounted, duh. I'm glad for that, because I was getting overeager and hadn't made even a full system backup.
This is one of those situations where choice, while good, makes it hard to get started. I wouldn't mind using dump, but doesn't it inefficiently copy the whole partition regardless of empty space? I figure tar could do as well, but is it a problem that it doesn't preserve all the meta info? As a starting point, I'd like to have an "quick" and safe way to make sure that if something happens while moving partitions, I can do a restore. I can progress to more optimal solutions later on, like semi- or fully automated incremental backup.
So what is a sure-fire way to do this while preserving all info? Should I stick with something like clonezilla, can I manage it from within Debian (CLI, ready-made script, GUI), is there a still better way?
I added a PPA repository to my sources list in order to install a package. After a day, i decided i didn't like the software, so i uninstalled it & removed the PPA from my sources list. Everything is still working just fine.
However, Synaptic is telling me that there is a "local or obsolete" package left over from the software i had originally installed. I can't remove the package because it is something that my entire desktop depends on (in Synaptic Package Manager, when i mark it for "Complete Removal," or even just "Removal," it says that pretty much everything else will be removed with it).The package i would like to "roll back" is libgtk2.0-common (2.24.0-1.1). although i had originally got this from a PPA, a very close version is available on Debian experimental here, which is version (2.24.0-1).
I've updated to the backported kernel image, and lo and behold new problem: mount:special device /dev/cdrom1 does not exist
I've looked in fstab and indeed the writer is there and /dev/ only has my other 2 drives cdrom1 and cdrom. i can trace them back to sr0 and sr1 but, there is no sr2, or anything else to find out what my drive is called. what can i do to find out?
Edit: booting under the old kernel image see's them recognized as hda, hdc, hdd. image 2.6.26, the backport is 2.6.32
