Re: [Bug #13179] CD-R: wodim intermittent failures

Andy Isaacson
2009-06-02T06:09:55Z

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> >of recent regressions.
> >
> >The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> >from 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> >(either way).
> >
> >
> >Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13179
> >Subject : CD-R: wodim intermittent failures
> >Submitter : Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
> >Date : 2009-04-21 1:52 (40 days old)
> >References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124027879214231&w=4
>
> Last I heard the reporter was going to attempt a bisect, that was a
> while ago. I don't really have any suggestions other than that.

I've been having trouble reliably bisecting; sometimes seemingly-bad
kernels work OK and other times thought-OK kernels fail even though I've
stopped Gnome and HAL.

At this point I'm suspecting intermittent hardware failure and am
getting set up to test on a similar machine.

-andy