k3b won't go away

[ryancw]

Running LN3 pretty much stock from the installation discs. Usually use the default Libranet desktop.

More than half the time, when I launch k3b, it freezes at the splash screen, saying "searching for cd devices." When I open a terminal window and type ps -A, I can see it is running and has a process number. But -kill- that process number won't stop k3b: in the ps -A after a kill statement, there it is, still running, and the splash screen persists.

The little bomb with the fuse, xkill, will ditch the splash screen, but k3b is still listed as a running process. Loging out doesn't work either--k3b is still running when I log back in.

Only rebooting the machine stops the darn thing.

What is the proper way to kill applications/processes so they really die?

And what is a better, or at least different, CD burning application I can use? I tried some toaster-named thing from gnome and it confused me--too many options in the dialog boxes.

Alternatively, what is an easy command line way to burn all the photos (jpeg files) from /home/shared/photos/printko to a CD?

Thanks.

[kmoffat]

Have you tried "killall k3b"?

Backup a directory to a CD:
mkisofs -r -R -J -l -L /home/user1 | cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,4,0 -v --eject speed=4 -
Make sure directory does not hold more than CD capacity (700Mb typically). Check with the command: du -s /home/user1


Here is a page:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html

[xmixahlx]

k3b is the best burning app that exists (imho) ...mostly the reason why i package it from cvs.

the "proper ways" are:
kill -9 'PID'
killall 'program'
xkill (select X program)


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