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I can't play CDs unless I run it as root. When I run as my normal user, it says 'Drive error' and in the console:
bash-2.05b$ gnome-cd
** (gnome-cd:816): WARNING **: Error opening CD
As root, I also get an error message (but at least it works):
bash-2.05b# gnome-cd
(gnome-cd:837): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
You have a device called /dev/cdrom which is a symbolic link to the device that is your CD device. Type in:
ls -l /dev/cdrom
to find out where /dev/cdrom points to.
Check the permissions on your CD device with:
ls -l /dev/whatever
means that root can read and write to /dev/hdc but nobody else can.
Try changing the /dev/hdc permissions to 777 which means that anybody can do anything they want with the CD. The command is:
chmod 777 /dev/hdc
If that works and user can play CDs then you may also have to change the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab. My cdrom entry in /etc/fstab looks like this:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
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