Cd burning with K3B on Fedora 2 or3
Using kde/k3b in user or root have problems of burning cd's.
Using Gnome/cdwriter user or root , burns cd's with no problems. K3b keeps saying it has problems with cdrecord. What's gives, is Redhat up to their old way's of tormenting us Kde users ? Jim |
What does k3b say exactly?
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I was having the same difficulty and have been jumping from KDE to Gnome for my burning needs.I am slowly resolving the problem as I learn more.I ran " cdrecord -scanbus " from a terminal and it showed my cd-writer but it was not enabled for writing.I can't recall exactly how I enabled it but someone here will.I also went to K3b and checked my preferences and along the way I went to a site with a good tute on using K3b___http://fedoranews.org/mweber/. After making one tick mark in a box I was off and running.
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We should not mix problems here. That most recent Fedora Core 2 update kernel 2.6.8-1.521 disables CD burners is something else. It's a kernel security feature which will be fixed in a future FC2 update. Meanwhile you either need to become root or try the newer kernel from the updates-testing repository for FC2.
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workaround?
Does anyone know of a work around for the cd burning problem associated with
the FC2 2.6.8 kernel? (no matter how ugly) |
Have you tried the most recent FC2 update kernel yet? kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2
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Re: Cd burning with K3B on Fedora 2 or3
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There is no SCSI emulation for ATAPI (IDE) connected CD/DVD devices in FC2 (kernel 2.6).
This is why you have to scan for ATAPI burners with: Code:
cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus Code:
cdrecord dev=ATAPI:x,y,z ... Quote:
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su - Boby |
Actually, you would simply use cdrecord -dev=/dev/cdwriter ...
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Thanks for your reply....
A little more background....I run fedora core 2. I am unable to burn CD's as a regular user, and must become root to do so. Obviously, this is not a good practice, and should be unnecessary. I searched the posting at this site and have tried the following: -updated cdrecord and cdrdao. -manually going in and setting the setuid and setgid bits on these two files (a practice I don't really like) -running the latest k3b (0.11.17). -I have searched but am unable to find the file k3bsetup2 anywhere on my harddrive, as was suggested in earlier posts. I attempted to run k3bsetup using the kcmshell and get session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. There is no facility under the menu /settings in the gui itself for modifying permissions About the only thing that was suggested in earlier posts is that I haven't done is use a different kernel, which, to me, seems unnecessary. If something is having permission issues, I'd like to find the 'rc' file the controls it, and change it. If there is some file (or device) that needs elevated privileges, I'd like to identify that, and do it a smart way. Thanks for any help |
rhythmsection,
please read my earlier reply, and don't ignore the other replies either. The CD writing problem in Linux 2.6.8 is by design. It is the result of a security fix which takes away the ability to send arbitrary raw commands. Please get the most recent kernel for FC2: kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 And please downgrade k3b to the version from FC2 Updates. Else you're missing patches. k3bsetup2 is not included, because it is not needed. This is mentioned in the FC2 release notes, too. |
i stopped useing K3B for all the problems that have been listed above
i installed xcdroast which seems to do all i want for burning cd's... |
jolly1701,
I got xcdroast, but get the following error when I attempt to blank a cd 'cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer.' DId you run into this? I set the setuid and setgid bits on cdrecord, but did not help Thanks |
Whether k3b or xcdroast, both depend on cdrecord and are affected by kernel 2.6.8.
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misc,
Guess I'll do without for a while (I can use our Mac to burn CDs - I can scp files from my linux box to our Mac). I don't really want to upgrade the kernel right now, since I don't want to discover any "new features" that break other things I have working - one of which is nvidia has a kernel module for 3D acceleration for my kernel version. As versitile as linux (and especially Fedora) is, it's suprising that the only solution to this problem is a kernel upgrade, as opposed to an adjustment to a configuration somewhere. thanks for your help |
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