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https://projects.tuxfamily.org/?do=group;name=graveman [ 1 ]

CD/DVD burning software. A frontend for: cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools, cdrdao

Wonderful!

I don’t want to use CDs or DVDs any more. I stopped some time ago.

Using CDs and DVDs had been a long-time burden for many using Linux distributions, since many are stuck in the dark ages. These days, I require them to use a USB stick.

First introduced to me by KateOS on 2009-03.

• (date not recorded) – (version not recorded) on PCLinuxOS (version not recorded)
• 2010-01-05 – 0.3.12-5 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta2, updated 2010-01-05.
• 2009-12-29 – (version not recorded) on Unity Linux 64bit-beta1, updated 2009-12-28.
• 2009-07-19 – 0.3.12-5 on Slackware 12.2, updated 2009-07-18.

• 2009-03-15 – (version not recorded) on PCLinuxOS 2007, (update date not recorded).

  • graveman was probably an older version than what would have been available at this date, because the distro was a bit dated.

• 2009-03-15 – graveman replaced K3b

  • I was first introduced to graveman when testing KateOS.

(date not recorded) – (version not recorded) ∞

apt-get install graveman

In KateOS, graveman detected my devices just fine, but I had to jump through some hoops for PCLinuxOS.

su
chown user:user /dev/hda
chown user:user /dev/hdb

1. start graveman.
2. in the menu: File > Preferences
3. at the top, choose the Devices tab.
4. right-click on whatever is there and remove it.

5. Click manually add a device

   1. DVD-R at /dev/hda
   2. DVD-RW at /dev/hdb

Simple enough..

cdrecord -scanbus will give the proper device names and locations, if you wish. I had issues using the locations given, so I stuck with /dev/hda and such.

2010-01-05 – 0.3.12-5 ∞

• A regular user can’t burn disks

• Even as root, when I try to append to a disk, I get:

  • I think all burning is fubared.. sigh.

(graveman:9142): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

2009-12-29 – (version not recorded) ∞

Graveman doesn’t give any hint as to how much working space exists on a disk which already has a session. I cannot import an existing session to look at it, change it etc. So this means I cannot “virtually remove” files from an existing session either.

2009-07-19 – 0.3.12-5 ∞

./configure
make
make install

• Works very well.

2009-03-15 – (version not recorded) ∞

What an amazing program. I think it’ll easily replace K3b.

• It flakes out when you try to re-erase an already-erased CDRW. Strange. I thought some disks were bad because of this issue.

• No write verification?

Footnotes

1. was http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/ [ ↩ ]