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["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

Hans du Plooy wrote:
> At some point, I compiled and installed the latest k3b (think it was 0.11.18 
> then), same as I have always done.  After that writing cds as normal user 
> stopped functioning.  I get:
>  
Check to make sure you do not have cdrecord suid.  It needs to not be 
suid now to work.
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes 
> on /dev/zero.
>  
the mmap issue is because of kernel security changes.  You can get more 
info from the k3b site.  0.11.19 is out, I would also suggest updating.
> I suspect resmgr is at fault, but I cannot figure out exactly how.  
>  
It isn't resmgr, it is a clash of cdrecord's security feature and the 
new security feature of the kernel.
> This is in SUSE 9.2 btw.
>  
Just make sure cdrecord is 755 and it should work again as non root.
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