k3b complains about missing permissions

[Philipp Wollermann]

Using Ubuntu Breezy with KDE, current as of 2005-09-10 23:49 CEST, I get an
error message when I start k3b:

No write access to device /dev/hdb
K3b needs write access to all the devices to perform certain tasks. Without you
might encounter problems with MATSHITA - UJ-831D
Solution: Make sure you have write access to /dev/hdb. In case you are not using
devfs or udev K3bSetup is able to do this for you.

k3bsetup doesn't work (it just shows a blank screen). I'll correct it manually
for now, but this should be done automatically.

Philipp

[Martin Meredith (mez)]

Confirmed, going to have a word with upstream

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Anything happened?

About the blank k3bsetup window, please see #32039

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

a work around for this is to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord and when it asks you if you would like it to use suid choose yes restart the app and burn. ;)

[gerard (zzking)]

Thx for the info John

John Vivirito a écrit :
> a work around for this is to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord and when
> it asks you if you would like it to use suid choose yes restart the app
> and burn. ;)
>
> ** Bug 32039 has been marked a duplicate of this bug
>
> ** Changed in: k3b (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
>
> ** Bug 37423 has been marked a duplicate of this bug
>
>

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

Tom Albers just sent me a working patch correcting the issue.
When the patch gets approved, I'll upload it

[Mark Reitblatt (mark-reitblatt)]

So, whatever happened here? Is this fixed in Edgy?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Yes this is fixed. should be in dapper and edgy.

[Mark Reitblatt (mark-reitblatt)]

Well, I still have the bug in Dapper, so it might not be gone yet. I worked around it by letting cdrecord be SUID.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

In Edgy it gets installed SUID.. I've just checked it by removing the /usr/bin/cdrecord file and reinstalling the cdrecord package.

[Kenny Duffus (kduffus)]

by default cdrecord is not suid on edgy

in dapper the fix should be in the dapper-backports version

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

You are right, Kenny. I've just checked "sudo dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord" and it asks about installing it as SUID.