Re: RLIMIT_MEMLOCK prevents burning CDROM
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 03:19:07PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> On checking the debug file, I found the following:
>
> cdrecord
> /usr/bin/wodim: Operation not permitted.
> Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit.
>
> I googled that term and found that it apparently has something to do
> with security, but if the limit is too low I should raise it. To do so
> I was told to add these two lines to file /etc/security/limits.conf:
>
> * soft memlock unlimited
> * hard memlock unlimited
>
> I looked at that file, but there is no uncommented line in it, nor any
> commented line resembling those two.
>
> Running the command "ulimit" however returns "unlimited".
Same here, but ... ?
> Next I was able successfully to burn a CDROM in a different computer
> which has the same K3B configuration as the first one, as far as I could
> see. So it is a mystery to me why I could burn on the second computer
> but not the first.
Different CDROM drive? Missing software? ... ???
Try at the "bare-bones" level, i.e
root@fischer:~# wodim -v speed=2 dev=/dev/hdX cdimage.raw
You may need to run "wodim --devices" to get the X value.
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