K3b doesn't want to work

[Derek Broughton]

Clay Weber wrote:

> On Saturday 19 November 2005 8:47 am, Thilo Six wrote:
>> Scott schrieb am 19.11.2005 05:16:
>> > I start it and up pops a dialog box reading
>> >
>> > "Since Linux kernel 2.6.8 cdrecord will not work when run suid root for
>> > security reasons anymore.
>> > Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem."
>> >
>> > So I click on the "Start K3b Setup2" button and up pops a big box
>> > that's
>> > mostly blanked out.  There are a few buttons at the bottom including
>> > one
>> > that says "OK".  But it or the otehrs don't work.
>> >
>> > So then I tried running it as root and don't even get that far.    I
>> > click on the "Start K3b Setup2" button and nothing happens.
>> >
>> > Help! :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> sudo k3bsetup  ?
>>
>> bye Thilo
> It's a known bug
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16820
> 
> The real problems is why you get that message anyway. I have not seen this
> message from k3b in years, that is usually set up so the user does not
> need to mess about with in a lot of distros.

No, _that_ message was introduced with the advent of the 2.6.8 kernel, and a
change in kernel support for CD writers.  iirc, it only appears if you _do_
have cdrecord setuid root.  dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord allows you to change
that.  
-- 
derek