k3b from fedora/testing doesn't work

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:12:11 -0500, Neal D. Becker wrote:

> > > I just tried k3b-0.9-0.fdr.7.1.
> > >
> > > I have used many versions of k3b before (build myself) and never had a
> > > problem, until now.
> > >
> > > k3bsetup doesn't work.  When run normally from menu (asks for root
> > > pw...), it hangs.  A process usermod -G ... seems to be stuck.
> >
> > When exactly does that happen?
> 
> When I click "finish".  It just hangs.  usermod -G ... is stuck.

usermod is part of shadow-utils and is called to add users to k3b's
cdrecording group. It if hangs, that's a problem outside k3bsetup.

I can't reproduce it.

Do you have any special forms of system authentication set up?

> > > When I do su, then run k3bsetup, it completes, but fails to set
> > > permissions for /usr/bin/cdrecord and devices.
> >
> > Can't reproduce any of this. Is this with KDE or GNOME?
>
> KDE.

k3bsetup gets superuser privileges via "kdesu" (the graphical password
prompt you've seen). With those privileges it changes permissions of
cdrecord to -rwsr-x--- and ownership to root.cdrecording. The package even
includes a fix for a bug in k3b 0.9 which sets insufficient permissions.

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