Bug 459956

Summary: k3b and dmesg: capability: warning: `growisofs' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
Product: [Applications] k3b Reporter: Jeffrey Walton <noloader>
Component: Burning/HardwareAssignee: k3b developers <k3b>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: minor CC: michalm, noloader, trueg
Priority: NOR    
Version: 21.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jeffrey Walton 2022-10-03 23:47:04 UTC
Hi Everyone,

I'm working on Fedora 36 with the KDE spin. I'm testing the burning of a large ISO using k3b. The burning fails (a separate problem), but I noticed the following in dmesg:

    [171027.111467] capability: warning: `growisofs' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)

That message has been around since at least 2010. People report it to various distros but no one fixes it. Some folks offer a patch but the patch just bitrots and then the issue is closed. I'm hoping a Fedora and KDE bug report might get it fixed.

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$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description:    Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Release:        36
Codename:       ThirtySix

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$ dnf info k3b

Installed Packages
Name         : k3b
Epoch        : 1
Version      : 21.12.2
Release      : 1.fc36
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 29 M
Source       : k3b-21.12.2-1.fc36.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : fedora
Summary      : CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application
URL          : http://www.k3b.org/
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD
             : burning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in all
             : steps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the
             : automatic settings and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quick
             : start.

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I can't seem to find anything for growisofs.

$ dnf info growisofs
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:37 ago on Mon 03 Oct 2022 07:42:45 PM EDT.
Error: No matching Packages to list
$ dnf search growisofs
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:59 ago on Mon 03 Oct 2022 07:42:45 PM EDT.
No matches found.