OK, so here's the thing (I think). I thought I had previously burned CDs in 9.1 as a normal user but when I got home after reading this mess from today I tried and nogo. Same results as many of you. Only way I could get it to burn was as root. Anyway... installed different versions of k3b and still nogo. Then I found a version on the k3b website for 9.1. Needed kde3libs 3.2.2 but I just ignored that. k3bsetup was in this version... used it to set perms and still no-go. Getting cdrecord errors opening the scsi bus. Saw some debug in there about cdrecord not being run as root although it is running as root after the k3bsetup modifications. Here's what I did to get it working: Remove k3b Remove cdrecord Install cdrecord and k3b (latest versions for 9.1) from the packman site. chmod +4711 /usr/bin/cdrdao chmod +4711 /usr/bin/cdrecord The culprit seems to be cdrecord. Although the perms are +4711 for cdrecord, k3b still reports its not running as root (in the debug logs). The cdrecord website mentions hacked versions being shipped with SuSE and Redhat... who knows. All I saw in the notes of the stock cdrecord was something about DVD support. I am not sure if I broke DVD support by using the packman cdrecord rpm or not cuz I don't have a DVD recorder - wanna send me one ? ;) Hope this helps. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:red.kryptonite@gmail.com] Sent: Thu 6/24/2004 3:50 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Problem with K3b and 9.1 On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:41:33 +1000, Graham Smith wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:20, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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if loging in as root makes the burn work how do you change the permissions to allow the user access to k3b?

CWSIV

What I did was using the Kmenu editor is set "Run as a different user" and

set

Username to root. Then I just have to add the root password at launch of k3b.

You could set it up using sudo

Yes, one could do this but the thing is.. until recently everyone of us could burn CDs as a regular user. Something changed and now things are not right. The fact is .. my user account is in the groups disk, admin, staff, cdrecording and every other group besides root so I should have access to do burns. It's worked on my 8.2 install since I put my burner into the system almost 19 months ago. Having to burn as root or use sudo shouldn't be needed. -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith." -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com