[opensuse] Re: Can't find growisofs

James Knott wrote:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* James Knott [12-31-06 17:22]:

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I have noticed that if I start K3B manually, it can find growisofs, but not when it's started by KDar.

Doesn't this make you think that there might be a path problem? I would check that kdar has the full path to k3b, change the working directory for kdar, start kdar from a script denoting specific paths including /usr/bin/....

I suspect it's due to growisofs not wanting to run under sudo. I've been doing some testing and found that if I run KDar as a regular user, it works, though I have to keep the "slice" size below the default 4400 MB for DVD's. So far, 4000 works and I'm currently trying 4100. Also, running it as a user greatly limits what I can back up, so next I'll try logging in as root, instead of just runnning KDar as root.

According to the growisofs man page, there is an option to allow it to be used under sudo, but recommends against it for security reasons. It's not a path issue, as /usr/bin is in root's path and K3B has no problem finding other files there. Also, K3B specifies the full path to the executables, so the PATH variable shouldn't even affect it.

Further on this. I can run KDar and burn DVD's, if I log in a root, but not if I run as root, from a user log in. I still haven't determined why I can't have a slice bigger than 4000 MB. This is interesting. I have run into a simular problem with Kdar on SUSE 10.0, On 12-19 Kdar worked fine, when I tried to back up /home it now tells me /media/dvdrecorder is not under /home/user please remove it. Only

James Knott wrote: trouble it is auto set and greyed out.If I su or run kdar as root from the run on kmenu it has the same result. I even uninstalled Kdar and am now in process of reinstalling it. Not sure what security updates I put on around the 20th od December. i will try root log in today since I'm trying to back up home before install 10.2. -- Russ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org