K3B and burning CDs

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:34 +0000, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Monday 01 Mar 2010 18:37:15 Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 13:26 +0000, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > > On Monday 01 Mar 2010 08:05:01 Ric Moore wrote:
> > > > It's been quite awhile since I burned a CD. I keep getting errors
> > > > related to permissions to the drive. So, I googled and found a bunch of
> > > > messages pertaining to the problem, but I'm not seeing a real fix. I'm
> > > > running Jaunty which is up to date. thanx. Ric
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > K3BSetup is what you need. It should be in system settings, at least it is in Karmic.
> > Not seeing anything like that in system settings, within
> > Jaunty... :( Ric
> > 
> > 
> OK, it's all to do with permissions.
> 
> When I open k3bsetup on my system it tells me what permissions should be set on various components to make it function :
> 
> /dev/sr0 (my cd burner) should have permissions 666 root.cdrom
> /usr/bin/cdrdao 4711 root.root
> /usr/bin/wodim 4711 root.root
> /usr/bin/growisofs 0755 root.root
> 
> and of course, your user must be a member of the cdrom group.
> 
> Maybe it's not in system settings on Jaunty, it might be part of k3b preferences, I remember it being somewhere.

Mark, thanks for the come-back but it didn't work. I've been using K3B
like forever and now it's dead in the water. I used Brasero and it
seemed to be in an endless loop while "normalizing tracks". I disabled
that feature and it proceeded to burn the CD just fine. 

Just wondering how the heck K3B could get so broken. When I googled on
the problem it seems to be cropping up all over, amongst the various
distros. I even tried running it as root, to no avail. Darn shame too.
Thanks again for your assistance! Ric


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