WTF (meaning Weird, True and Freaky - OK?) about KDE3

[Basil Chupin]

On 04/10/2010 17:55, Doug wrote:
> On 10/04/2010 02:34 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>> On 02/10/2010 03:46, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 01:38 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>> So I then tried using Brasero - for the first time ever.
>>>>
>>>> It burnt the CD without a hiccup.
>>>>
>>>> Question: who has stuffed-up K3b in the past 24 or so hours so that it
>>>> no longer works as it did for years? (I say 24 hours or so because I/we
>>>> check daily for upgrades - and there haven't been any for some days
>>>> until the last 24 hours.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> It's a rather old problem. I'm surprised it hasn't been remedied yet. It
>>> usually concerns r/w permission and cdrom group membership, to grant
>>> permission to actually write to the cd/dvd device. Just
>>> "more /etc/group" and see if your user is in the group "cdrom". That is
>>> the usual suspect. For whatever reason, Brasero doesn't use that schema,
>>> apparently. Me, I don't like wasting even one CD, and the fact that K3b
>>> could write ~something~ to the disc, enough to bugger it up, is
>>> maddening. Ric
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Thanks, Ric, but I checked and the 'user' *is *a member of the 'cdrom'
>> group.
>>
>> As I stated (because my own 'backup' computer now being used does not
>> have the ability to burn CDs/DVDs 'cause I lost the mobo - see thread
>> Any Suggestion?) I have had to use my wife's computer to do any burning
>> and I have had no problems doing so until the last ugrades I put thru to
>> 10.04.1 Lucid.
>>
>> I conclude that something to do with KDE has something to do with this
>> sudden change in behaviour of K3b.
>>
>> In one way perhaps - I say perhaps - I am glad because I won't have to
>> install all that additional KDE stuff to have K3b working :-) .
>>
>> (OK, I won't show my face in kubuntu for a while, right? :-) .)
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
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> If your wife's computer is running Windows, get Burncdcc.exe.  It's
> free, and its
> only purpose in life is to burn .iso files to disks, so it's hard to
> screw up!  --doug
>    
My wife's computer has been Windows free for some 5 years now.

So Burncdcc.exe cannot feature in any scenario :-) .

BC

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