[gentoo-user] kaudiocreator still giving me fits

[Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I don't know if anyone might have some more insight into this, but I'm
going to try anyway.

At the first of June, I posted saying that kaudiocreator kept freezing
during the ripping process.  When it froze, ps -ax revealed that the
process of kaudiocreator and kscd both were in "uninterruptible sleep"
(i.e. they had a D beside them).  When this happens, my system locks up
and I can't even open the CD tray.  I have to push the reset button to
restart my system.

There is no consistency in what is going on.  I have ripped 1 CD in
entirety, another kept freezing, but when I started kaudiocreator again,
I was able to rip the tracks a couple at a time.  Sometimes it will rip
a track, start to encode (ogg vorbis) and then freeze.  The only
commonality that the CD's have is the artist.  They are all new (meaning
not used) and range from a release date of 1994 to 2006.  The 2006
release ripped fine in kaudiocreator under kde 3.4.3, but won't rip
under kde 3.5.2.  And it's not likely that it's a copy protection issue
since the 2006 release ripped fine under kde 3.4.3.

I try to keep my system up to date and use relatively few testing
releases.  I deliberately waited for kde 3.5 to become stable by Gentoo
standards before upgrading.  Since the initial upgrade of KDE 3.5 (meta)
(installed to a new slot), I've removed both KDE 3.4.3 and KDE 3.5.2 and
reinstalled.  I've wiped my .kde/share/config directory and started
fresh.  Nothing seems to help.

As previously stated, kaudiocreator worked fine under kde 3.4.3.  Also,
I've been able to burn a data CD in kde 3.5.2, so I know that it's not
the CD drive.  /var/log/messages keeps telling me that the drive isn't
ready, but I can hear it spinning up.

I'd like to get this thing working.  It's not that I'm so enamoured with
kaudiocreator.  When I was a Fedora Core user, I used sound-juicer. 
However, I *am* enamoured with Gentoo because I don't have to install
all the bloat of things that I don't want.  sound-juicer requires the
Gnome Desktop and I refuse to have that on my system.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Regards,

Colleen

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