Problems with K3b but not Brasero

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:34:41 -0600, Chris wrote:

> I recently started having problems with K3B burning an ISO to DVD-R that
> seems to be a failure of wodim to write the disk image. By recently
> started, I mean that K3B previously worked without any problems, but after
> a recent update K3B no longer works.
> 
> The problems started after an update of my F13 installation.  The only
> thing I saw in the update which seems like it could have affected device
> permissions was policycoreutils.  Did something in the SELinux settings
> change around that time? 

Have you tried running k3b after switching to SELinux permissive mode?
(e.g. with setenforcing 0)

> No alerts in the SELinux troubleshooter, so
> presumably it is not caused by SELinux.

Not every denial results in audit log messages. Some AVC messages are
inhibited deliberately.