Re: [dvd::rip] problems with burning on dvd::rip 0.52.2

Hi Joern,
Thanks for reply
Tried ln command as user and root in shell and same result, same error 
message.
I have rwxrwxrwx access to that directory the same as my entire Data main 
directory.
Still confused !

Bill

On Monday 08 Aug 2005 18:08, Jörn Reder wrote:
> Bill Buttling wrote:
> > had a good look at symbolic links and am confused as to what dvd::rip is
> > doing here.(This is copy of dvd::rip log file)
> > Fri Aug  5 18:02:40 2005 Executing command:
> > rm-f
> > /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.sv
> >cd.bin;
> >
> > ln-s
> > /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.sv
> >cd
> > /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.sv
> >cd.bin
> >
> > && dr_exec cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --speed 24 --driver generic-mmc
> > --eject--overburn
> > /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.sv
> >cd.cue
> >
> > &&rm
> > /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.sv
> >cd.bin
> >
> > && echo DVDRIP_SUCCESS
> >
> > As I read the code above the rm -f command will remove the .bin fileand
> > then the ln-s command will try and make a symbolic link to it. This
> > surely don't make sense !
>
> Yes, if ln would work like you think it does work, it wouldn't make
> sense ;) But ln's syntax is as follows:
>
>   ln -s original-filename link-filename
>
> So the *link* is removed and then recreated again here. AFAIRC cdrdao
> expects the .bin name, but dvd::rip works internally with the .svcd
> extension (to distinguish images from .vcd), that's why this symbolic
> link is used here.
>
> If you try to issue the complete ln command line from a console, do you
> get the "Operation not permitted" error as well? Do you have write
> permissions in the directory
> /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/ ?
>
> ... just following the thread an found this reply from Mark:
> > Try running rm
> > -f
> > /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.sv
> >cd in a shell and see if it fixes the problem. If it does, you found a bug
> > in dvd::rip :)
>
> If you executed this command you deleted the original image file, not
> the link (obviously Mark was fatally wrong regarding the ln syntax as
> well... ;). So you indeed need to remaster the image, if you deleted it
> with this command.
>
> But Mark's suggestions was basically right, just please try deleting the
> link not the original ;)
>
>   rm
> /home/bill/Data/My_Video/MillionDollarBabe/avi/002/MillionDollarBabe_1.svcd
>.bin
>
> Regards,
>
> Joern