Re: cdrecord floating point exception

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >     
> > > >From zoubidoo@hotmail.com Fri Jan 30 21:07:19 2009
> > >
> > >   
> > > You did not install cdrecord correctly as you see from this messages.
> > > Cdrecord needs to be installed suid root in order to be able to open all needed 
> > > devices and in order to send all needed SCSI commands.
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > When are you going to fix that? Other software can burn without being 
> > root, clearly it can be done. If there are better commands to use with a 
> >     
>
> This is a definitive wrong claim. There is No way to correctly write without
> root privileges. 
>
>   
> > > Try to kill hald and retry cdrecord after correctly installing it suid root.
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > Time to learn to use a scalpel instead of a chain saw... You don't just 
> > "kill hald" on most modern distributions, things stop working. And the 
> >     
>
> Try to learn that hald on Linux is broken and acts on wrong status changes.
>   

Nothing is ever your fault. Instead of learning from the applications 
which burn CDs and DVDs without being root, your software has problems 
with hald and you refuse to accept that changing the hald config fixes 
the problems and others can work with hald as is, and insist hald is at 
fault.


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