Bug 95046

Summary:	cdrecord does not run with root privileges
Product:	[Applications] k3b	Reporter:	Craig Wilcox <craig>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Sebastian Trueg <trueg>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Craig Wilcox 2004-12-13 04:41:39 UTC

Version:           K3b 0.11.15cvs (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

cdrecord does not run with root privileges
It is highly recommended to configure cdrecord to run with root privileges. Only then cdrecord runs with high priority which increases the overall stability of the burning process. Apart from that it allows changing the size of the used burning buffer. A lot of user problems could be solved this way. This is also true when using SuSE's resmgr.
Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem.
cdrdao does not run with root privileges
It is highly recommended to configure cdrdao to run with root privileges to increase the overall stability of the burning process.
Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem.

How do I change the chmod to a user?  What should the chmod be? xwr?  Will this fix my problem?  I am using SuSe 9.2 and there is NO k3bsetup.

Comment 1 Craig Wilcox 2004-12-13 04:52:41 UTC

Here is the debug information that came directly from K3b when trying to burn a CD:

System
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K3b Version:0.11.15cvs 
KDE Version: 3.3.0
QT Version: 3.3.3

cdrdao
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Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
  SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
  Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'
/dev/hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2102 Rev: 1715
Using driver: Toshiba CD-ROM Reader - Version 0.1 (options 0x10000)
Burning entire 0 mins disc.
ERROR: Inserted disk is not empty and not appendable.

cdrdao comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrdao write --device /dev/hdc --speed 24 -n -v 2 --eject --remote 19 /tmp/kde-craig/k3bq6KTlatoc 

mkisofs
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28880
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
 Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
 use -input-charset to override.

mkisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset  -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.15cvs (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher  -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.15cvs -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-craig/k3b3MSM1b.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-craig/k3bPhO1Pb.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-craig/k3bamvqrc.tmp /home/craig/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/

Comment 2 Robert 2005-01-26 23:14:28 UTC

i have the same problem, running kernal 2.6.8-24.11-default on suse with kde 3.3 and the cd burner is a USB based one, but it worked on other distros.

Comment 3 Christoph Burger-Scheidlin 2006-09-10 02:49:35 UTC

I recommend this bug to be closed as invalid.

Reason:
In the initial report, you said that there was no k3bsetup, which can fix this 
issue. Please file a bug with SuSE as they should provide a method of running 
k3b properly, if they decide to remove k3bsetup.

Comment 4 Sebastian Trueg 2006-09-10 14:19:38 UTC

see last comment.