Bug#274860: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctls only work as root

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Severity: normal


i have upgraded to 2.6.8-1-686 and i find that k3b no longer runs as an
ordinary user - even though it used to work fine on 2.6.7.

an strace of root running k3b and a comparative strace of an ordinary
user shows that an attempt to perform an ioctl CDROM_SEND_PACKET on
/dev/hdc fails as ordinary user but not as root.

k3b therefore cannot proceed, because it determines somehow that
/dev/hdc is nonexistent.

yes, permissions on /dev/hdc were not altered (they are set to
rw-rw-rw)

... what gives?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.7-selinux1 #15 Wed Sep 29 14:04:23 BST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C