Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2017, Zoltan Hoppar sent:
Looks like my installation is also broken, not only the dvd writer
part, something really messed up by dnf..... But... No clue why
burning *any* media is impossible, because when the process is
started looks everything nice - it's just torns the drive when needs
to be finalised. Worse thing is that drive bay door keeps closed -
unable to eject - because the thread can't finalize the writing, disk
remains empty, and NO app is able to write anything. When I tried to
kill the tread, interestingly the app closes, but the drive keeps
spinning, and staying repeatedly in finalizing phase, till I power
off. Really scary, when the drive loudly scratching repeatedly
positioning back and forward....
Can it read other discs (ones made before the current problem)?
Are you using cheap discs? The drive being unable to focus on a disc
is a common indicator of bad discs (which can be down to a bad random
disc, or lousy products).
The other thing that springs to mind is the status of the drive.
Whether it's laser is dirty (smoke, dirt, fluff, etc.), laser wearing
out (everything ages), or the mechanics being gunked up so it can't
move properly into position.
By the way, don't top post on this list. Quote what's need to make
sense of a reply, and reply below what you quote, so it reads like a
coherent conversation. If your software makes that difficult, a better
approach can be to quote nothing, at all. Just make your reply
understandable by itself.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.12.5-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 7 15:27:25 UTC 2017 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
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