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Re: K3b says "no suitable writer found" when run as normal user



Le mardi 19 avril 2005 à 12:40 +0200, wolfgang pauli a écrit :
> Hi, 
>  
> I hope somebody can help me with the following problem. K3b doesn't find a 
> "suitable writer" if I run it as a normal user. This problem appeared 
> after I upgraded to kernel(-image) 2.6.8-2-k7.  
> I have no idea why it doesn't detect the writer, it detects the drive as > reading device only. 
> I use cdrecord (Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34) and a cdrecord -prcap (run as 
> normal user) detects the writer: 
> ... 
> scsidev: 'ATA:1,0,0' 
> devname: 'ATA' 
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 
> Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. 
>  
> Does read CD-R media 
> Does write CD-R media 
> Does read CD-RW media 
> Does write CD-RW media 
>  
> The permissions of files and devices are: 
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/hdc 
>  
> -rwsr-xr--  1 root cdrom    133 Aug 26  2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord 
> -rwsr-xr--  1 root cdrom 347180 Aug 26  2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap 
> -rwsr-xr--  1 root cdrom 347212 Aug 26  2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord.shm 
> (cdrecord is installed suid root) 
>  
> K3b detects cdrecord.mmap 
>  
> If I run k3b as normal user, k3b says that the writer can write CD/RWs but 
> not CDs, if I run k3b as root, k3b says it can also write CDs. 
>  
> I think the problem is really strange. K3b is really user-friendly as long 
> as it works, but if it stops working it is worse than 
> windows-applications. I installed it to make windows users able to use the 
> linux box. 
>  
> Any suggestions what I configured wrong? 

You did re-run k3b-setup after installing the 2.6 kernel, didnt you ?

>  
> Thank, 
>  
> Wolfgang 
> 
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