Problems with K3b but not Brasero

JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 07:07:58 UTC 2010


Chris Caudle <chris <at> chriscaudle.org> writes:

> ...
> Brasero continued to work even when K3B did not.
> 
> The error message in K3B is "cdrecord has no permission to open the device."
> 
> This is the permissions of the cdrom device now:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/sr0
> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Nov 11 20:52 /dev/sr0
> 
> I don't remember the cdrom group being required before, but I went ahead
> and added my user account to the cdrom group to see if that corrected the
> problem, but it did not.

Verify that you really are in cdrom group (otherwise logout and login):
$ groups

Furthermore,
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3b/+question/21117

> This is the only output which looks suspicious from wodim:
> wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.

Explanation:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440401

JB




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