you could read this, last part pertains to blueray http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdr-faq.html - claims growisofs not necessarily needed.

In k3b settings -> programs -> growisofs is there any option other that growisofs to use (maybe mkisofs or cdrtools)? If so select it and click "set default", this should now have the check mark

What if you removed growisofs?

Cdrecord doesn't support multisession burning with Blu-ray disks yet. That's why K3b uses growisofs in most of the cases. If you want to use cdrecord, set "Multisession Mode" to "No Multisesssion" on "Misc" tab in Data Project burning dialog.

Hello,
I've tried solution above and it didn't work for me.
OS is openSuSE live KDE 64-bit. I could not manage to

rpm -e dvd+rw-tools

so I did

rm -f /usr/bin/growisofs
rm -f /usr/bin/X11/growisofs

Then rescanned available programs in K3b -> Configure -> Programs, picked "No Multisession in Data Project dialog and try to burn Blue-Ray again. Got some mkisofs message about not finding growisofs and burning doesn't even start.

Generally it's definietely not capacity related problem as I try to burn 11GB project. Debug output looks clear. I can post it if needed.

The project I try to burn is a backup of HP notebook restore media (3 ISO files on UDF filesystem). After faulty burning (99% complete, then I/O error message), medium can be read with recorder, altrough last ISO file is corrupt. Tried with 3 different disk brands (Esperanza, Verbatim, and some kind of no-name) with the same effect.

Got any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Kuba

I'm using squeeze with k3b 2.0.1, but buring BD-R still wont work:

Medium

Type: BD-R
Capacity: 2715:25:17 min (23,3 GiB)
Rewritable: no
Appendable: no
Empty: yes
Layers: 1
Sessions: 0
Supported writing speeds: 40.0x (179840 KB/s)
48.0x (215808 KB/s)

The project contains 19.2. GiB of data.

Pressing the 'Burn' Button:

Found medium: Empty BD-R medium
Please insert an empty medium of size 19.2 GiB or larger into drive

...

Debug info:

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Used versions
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mkisofs: 1.1.11

mkisofs
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10087598

mkisofs calculate size command:
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/usr/bin/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid srvbuseckXP -volset  -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2010 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND MICHAL MALEK -publisher  -preparer  -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-xxxx/k3bM30004.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-xxxx/k3bo30004.tmp -no-cache-inodes -allow-limited-size -udf -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 3 -path-list /tmp/kde-xxxx/k3by30004.tmp


What's wrong ?

Is there no solution to that issue ?

Greetings Michael

After some digging and experimenting I have found the following which I hope may of help to other people in a similar predicament...

Problem caused by cdrecord (http://cdrecord.berlios.de/) licensing issues and past feuds which result in cdrkit (http://www.cdrkit.org/) being installed on system (Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, etc) and used in place of actual cdrecord binaries.

cdrkit binaries based on old and buggy code.

k3b patched to detect cdrkit installation and use growisofs instead - https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101208/. In referenced bugs growisofs seems to have an issue closing the BD-R session resulting in the last file burnt to the disc being faulty and the disc left open ("Appendable: yes" in k3b after burning).

Solution is to install cdrecord. Removal of cdrkit isn't required as k3b will detect cdrecord from default install path of /opt/schily/.

For installation instructions on Debian-based O/S see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=5

Note that you can stop at 'sudo make install' in the above and k3b will find cdrecord, no adjusting with symlinks in /usr/bin is required.

Apparently as detailed in viewtopic.php?f=153&t=85895&start=15#p165603 - setting k3b to "No Multisession" will cause it to use cdrecord instead of growisofs.

Have tested the above on Debian Wheezy.

Good luck - Ben Whorwood (mube.co.uk)

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Issue referenced in bugs...

viewtopic.php?f=153&t=85895&start=15
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281818
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244549
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257652

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Solution based on...

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656502
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101208/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=851707

cdrecord is no longer part of the official squeeze distribution

For distributions no longer shipping with cdrecord you need to download the source and compile.

Taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=5

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# Open a terminal window (Konsole in Kubuntu) and enter
# the following commands

# install compiler tools
sudo apt-get install build-essential

# Make sure you're in the tmp folder
cd /tmp

# Make a working folder and change to it
mkdir cdrtools
cd cdrtools

# Download latest cdrtools from http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
wget ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-beta.tar.gz

# Unpack
tar xzf cdrtools-beta.tar.gz

# CD to the directory cdrtools is in.
cd cdrtools-*

# Compile and install
make
sudo make install

# Files are installed to /opt/schily
# (you may want to change their ownership to root:root)
sudo chown root:root /opt/schily/bin/*

After performing the above k3b will detect the cdrecord binaries in /opt/schily and use them instead of cdrkit:

With cdrecord compiled from the sources:

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Found medium: Empty BD-R medium
Please insert an empty medium of size 19.2 GiB or larger into drive

Media info:

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Type:   BD-R
Capacity:   2715:25:17 min (23,3 GiB)
Rewritable:   no
Appendable:   no
Empty:   yes
Layers:   1
Sessions:   0
Supported writing speeds:   40.0x (179840 KB/s)
48.0x (215808 KB/s)

After further reading I'm afraid my solution applied to the "Fatal error during recording: Input/Output error" error when k3b gets to 99% done burning a BD-R.

Your issue seems related to: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236069

Apparently the fix for this was added to K3b 1.92 (2.0 RC3), which you are running a later version.

Have you tried installing k3b from the Debian Testing repository?

You can run stable (Squeeze) but install some packages from testing (Wheezy), see here for more information:

http://serverfault.com/questions/22414/ ... om-testing

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=107290&p=247897#p247897