Problems with ArchLinux and K3B?

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Saturday, February 18. 2006

If you got an up-to-date ArchLinux, then chances are that k3b/growisofs complains about being unable to anonymously mmap before burning. It seems K3B passes one parameter with a slightly too high value to growisofs.

Here's my work-around: Go to K3B's config, Programs tab, User Parameters. Add the following parameter for growisofs:
-use-the-force-luke=bufsize:16m

cheers,
muesli

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growisofs K3B unable to anonymously mmap
I was going to post this under Gentoo, however, this issue effects all distros who are using newer kernels (>=2.6.15 AFAIK). The fix for this is posted on quite a few sites and its quite simple. Close K3B, run:ulimit -l unlimitedRe-open K3B and burn. A few other fixes I've seen, but not tested, include adding the option use-the-force-luke=bufsize:16m in K3B's config section or changing the buffer size to a value between 30-64MB. Try not to exceed 64MB or you may run into some system stability issues.

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Hi,
thanks for your help,
I just wanted to assure that also on Gentoo Linux the same problem co-exists.

So don't worry if you're on Gentoo Linux, just do what muesli told.
Bye.

#1 Stephan 'smg' Grein (Homepage) on 2006-03-02 11:51 (Reply)

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