k3b permissions error

[Paul Kaplan]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 9:17 am, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah.  I've tried setting the suid bit on /usr/bin/cdrecord, /usr/bin/cdrdao, 
and /usr/bin/cdparanoia.  Obviiously something else is needed.
Clearly a bug or oversight in k3bsetup, unless it's a feature...but for what 
purpose?
Paul