On Tuesday 25 December 2001 14:30, you wrote:
On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 01:21, Rick Green wrote:
I have made several attempts to get my CR-R going, but have been thwarted, and now I fear I've tangled something up in the attempt. Would someone help me untangle this mess?
I'm impressed. Good job gathering data!
was the bug hump, and it would all fall into place after that. Silly me!
Well, it sort of is...
There is no 'cdwrite' entry in /etc/group
What the help message means is that xcdroast should be owned root:somegroup, and your user should be a member of somegroup, where somegroup is the same group that owns /dev/cdburner, where cdburner is the device that has the burning lasers. Get it? :)
Who owns /dev/scd0? It should be root:cdrom, and the same for any executable you want to make CD-R/RWs with.
I'm open to suggestions!
From the looks of your prompt, it looked like you were using the root user to do this stuff...am I wrong? Firstly, root shouldn't be using X; secondly, root is the best user to diagnose this problem. What happens when you just use cdrecord from the command line as a user or as root? The CD-Writing HOWTO has very clear directions for each mkisofs and cdrecord; they're the only tools I ever use.
May I come in into this problem as I am just wrestling with the same kind of problem. Where to find out the ownership of /dev/sd0. I aqm a little confused at the moment. Need a geek, I believe ;-). If the /dev/sg) is not included into the ownership, cdrecord -scanbus would not give a piece of useful information or?