Hoary and k3b cannot write

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 10/3/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> R.L.Reingard wrote:
>
> >> Am 03.10.2005, 19:33 Uhr, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>:
> >> I've trying k3b for the first time, with no joy.
> >> When I start k3b as root, I get a number of messages:
> >> root at maguire:~ # k3b
> >> Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the
> >> authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
> >> authentication failed
> >> Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the
> >> authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
> >> authentication failed
> >> kbuildsycoca running...
> >> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 24583, errno = 0
> >> k3b: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name
> or
> >> about data passed to the constructor!
> >
> > no, sorry. why you don't try GNOMEBAKER (or Graveman) which does run
> > nicely in Gnome.
>
> Why would you even suspect he uses Gnome? There's nothing in there to
> suggest it.
>
> Kevin, why are you starting it as root? It shouldn't run _from_ root, and
> quite possibly (depending on the kernel you're using) can't run suid root.
> Instead, you should have the device owned by group 'cdrom' and yourself
> added to the group. If you still can't write CDs at that point, then you
> need cdrecord/cdrdao to be suid root - but that is done in the K3B setup.
>
> "Authentication" is required by X - you can not, generally, run X apps
> from
> a terminal owned by root. That's why we have gksu and kdesu commands.
> --
> derek
>
>
I'm used to my other distros, where I start root with 'sux' and X is
allowed.
My bad.

So I did it as you suggest, and K3b can build an image, but not write it.
It recognizes my burner by brand and model, but never reports any actual
burner progress or writing speed. Just nothing. Progress remains at 50%
when the first 50 is building the image. An hour later it's still 50%.

++ kevin

--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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