[clug] Burning Issues

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Paul,

You should be fine if you run as root. Otherwise it might work to set
permissions on the sg device associated with your burner. Personally, I always
ran cdrecord as root, and its successor program wodim (which does DVDs).

Cheers ... Duncan.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:51:14PM +1000, Paul Matthews wrote:
> G'Day All,
>
> I can burn .ISO's under Windows. But both K3B and Brasero do not wish to
> work.
>
> For K3B the error is "cdrecord has no permissions to open the device".
> Which as seems odd as:
>
> *plm at thunk:~>* groups
> users audio cdrom video
> *plm at thunk:~>* ls -l /dev/cdrw
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-07-18 14:12 /dev/cdrw -> sr0
> *plm at thunk:~>* ls -l /dev/sr0
> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-07-18 14:12 /dev/sr0
>
> indicates it should have permissions (?)
>
> For Brasero its an "unknown error".
>
> Web searches have all ended up with either dead ends.
>
> Any ideas ?
>

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