On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 14:06 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm running Wheezy and installed k3b to burn an ISO to install > aptosid. For some reason the aptosid manual said to use it, but I > suspect it was only because the author lives in a KDE desktop > environment and something like wodim would have done just as well. Yes, I think it's safe to assume you can burn it using wodim or something else. > My problem is that I cannot start k3b because it cannot find my > optical > drive. The k3b interface says "No optical drive found". In the > terminal > I see: > > QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before > QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. > KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated > with a > valid main component instead of a fake component, this > usually > means you tried to call i18n related functions before your > main > component was created. You should not do that since it most > likely will not work > QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before > QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. > > I'm ignorant about desktop environments and so don't know what to > make > of all this. Is the problem that I have no DE installed? It seems > DBus > is part of a GNOME or KDE desktop environment. > > My optical drive is ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS. While it behaves oddly, > it > is so conventional under Linux that I doubt it is the source of > trouble. It looks like k3b uses udisks2, if that's not installed properly (with d-bus) it might be the problem, but that's just a guess. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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