Kaffeine in Kubuntu 8.04 is borked.

[Derek Broughton]

Knapp wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Rod, I opened this mail with the intention of triaging your condition,
>> but you bury your content in adjectives and irrelevant details. Please
>> tell us what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen.
>> I'll take it from there. Thanks.
>>
snippage of .sigs

Douglas - it's nice to see bottom posting, but please snip the sigs :-)

> Dotan, it seems his problem is exactly the same as mine and he is fed
> up with it. I understand but I think he is wrong about the sudo and su
> thing. It is just a problem that looks like that because the error
> message is totally wrong. The problem is with the kaffiene program
> looking at the wrong drive for some reason that seem to have to do
> with the upgrade to 8.04. I would bet what I told him fixes his
> problem unless his dvd player is not on dev/scd0 like mine is.

I'm glad you could make something of it, because I had the same frustration
as Dotan.  As you describe your fix, I suspect you're right - it sounds
like if there's a DVD in the drive, it gets mounted by the "mount -a" that
happens at boot time, and then Kaffeine can see it, but a user doesn't have
mount privilege on the same device.

If so, then in addition to what you've done, I'd suggest you both should
check /etc/fstab to ensure that the correct device is mentioned there.

> Computers can REALLY piss people off. It used to be in NY city when
> the stock market crashed people throw themselves out the windows, now
> they throw the computers out. :-)

I _suppose_ that's a healthier reaction :-)
-- 
derek