Slackware 14.1: cdda2wav permission issues...
 

I am trying to rip an audio cd with cdda2wav on a new 64bit iinstallation of 14.1 with the following commandline:

cdda2wav finds the correct address for the drive, does a cddb query correctly, allows me to select an entry but then stalls with:

Can anyone reproduce this problem or even better propose a solution?

I assume that the current working directory is writable? Seems odd that it's complaining about the output file.

cdda2wav works here as non-root as long as I add -D /dev/sr0 (but that will force use of the "cooked_ioctl" interface). I get a whole heap of "permission denied" without it when running non-root. if you want it to use the "generic_scsi" interface (which is the one recommended in the man-page) then you'll need to make sure the sg module is loaded and run cdda2wav as root.


This looks like a job for a /usr/local/bin/rip_cd script and a corresponding sudoers entry.

Using /dev/sr0 certainly worked, thanks for pointing that out. I use modprobe sg in rc.local and the error I mentioned occurs with the scsi address as a root user; there is no problem with permissions at the destination.

I see a discussion of this issue in German:

http://de.comp.hardware.laufwerke.br...wav-3-01a15-16

and my schoolboy German seems to indicate that the last post in this exchange is from Jörg Schilling himself with the promise of a fix in a new release cdrtools-3.01a18. But I cannot understand the whole thread which at least starts discussing the same error that I have found, are there any German speakers reading this thread? Changelog for the new release reports:

On the weekend I will compile the newest release and see if this definitively solves the issue...

The generic_scsi was working for me, but that might be because I was running a custom 3.11.y kernel. google translate doesn't do too bad a job at that thread if you want to give it a go:

http://translate.google.com/translat...a15-16&act=url

Thanks for the translation link :). Actually took a bit of time before work and compiled the newer version which made no difference unfortunately. I will think a little more + I have with some trepidation consulted the cdrtools mailing list...

The latest version of cdda2wav / cdrtools has resolved all issues here:

Still a little surprised that nobody else has experienced this issue...