k3b permissions error

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 6:59 am, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Paul, as much as I'm going to get flamed for this, I always run k3b as
> root. It's the only 100% sure way to avoid those permissions problems

I'm not going to flame you.  I have to do this too, and I don't understand 
why.  K3B scans for permissions at startup, and does not detect any problems.  
If I run the setup utility manually, it finds nothing to complain about.  Yet 
whenever I try to burn something, I get a message similar to "I/O Error!  See 
log for details."  The log is always empty of any clue at all.  It just fails 
for no apparent reason, and I have no clue what to do about it.

It's got to be permissions on something that k3bsetup doesn't check for, but 
what?  I've tried to strace it to no avail, tried various other ideas.  At 
the end, I just run it as root and sigh.

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