Unable to play audio cds (selinux?)

ne... akabi at speakeasy.net
Thu May 6 16:50:27 UTC 2004


On May 6, 2004 at 18:34, Matthew East in a soothing rage wrote:

>I have a strange problem which I haven't been able to resolve by
>searching the internet. I'm running FC 2 test 3, up to date as of today,
And terefore you should be using the fedora-test-list
and not fedora-list.

>and I cannot play audio cds. I can mount cds fine, but when trying to
>play an audio cd i get the error "disk error" from the gnome cd player.
>And the following when trying cdp:
>
>[matt at localhost matt]$ cdp
>As root, please run
> 
>chmod 666 /dev/cdrom
> 
>to give yourself permission to access the CD-ROM device.
>
>This command does not change things. In case they help, here are some
>more information.
>
>[matt at localhost matt]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Apr  9 13:21 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
Since /dev/cdrom is a link the chmod command will not
have any effect on it.

>[matt at localhost matt]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
>brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 23 22:02 /dev/hdc
Try chmod 666 /dev/hdc instead.

>[matt at localhost matt]$
>
>I have recently set selinux as enforcing
You may have to change it back. Try either the
fedora-test-list for matters pertaining to FC2t3 and
fedora-selinux-list for matters pertaining to selinux
in future please.

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