K3b/cdrecord and SuSE 9.1

[Tzar Kastik]

Hi. I tried to copy a CD with K3b/cdrecord on SuSE 9.1 and it failed because cdrecord was not running with root priveleges!?! This has never happened with SuSE 9.0 and i cant find any info about how to get round this.

Any help would be great. Thanks

[pilotgi]

Did you run the K3b setup tool?

[Tzar Kastik]

No, it was installed as part of the OS installation, so i would have thought it would be configured automatically. Ive looked through the setup menus and i cant see anything that would be relevant. Where would i find the setup tool?

[Tzar Kastik]

Heres the excerpt from the k3b dialogue box:

Starting dao writing at 8x speed...
Medium or burner do not support writing at 8x speed
Switching down to 0x
Starting in 2 seconds
Starting in 1 second
Enabled Burnfree
Performing Optimum Power Calibration
Sending CUE sheet
Starting writing
cdrecord returned an unknown error (code 254)
Unknown error 254
Cdrecord is not being run with root priveleges
This influences the stability of the burning process

The debugging output is attached.

Oh, my drive is a HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N

[MrPointy]

I had a similar problem. Regular user account didn't have rights to CD Writer.

As root try:

chmod 777 /media/cdrecorder

[mdwatts]

And I posted a suggestion in the other thread (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=127787) on the same problem.

[pilotgi]

Have you tried opening K3b, click settings, click configure K3b? This usually fixes permissions problems in SUSE distros.

As MrPointy pointed out, chmod 777 will fix permissions but in the past I had to use this command:

chmod 777 /dev/sr0

HTH

[Tzar Kastik]

yep, tried that and am still getting this problem. Have changed the permission as mdwatts suggested and it removed the permissions problem, but still gives the same error.

[Tzar Kastik]

Ill stop posting here and use the other thread. :)