After upgrading to 2.6.8.1, k3b stopped working

[Paul Howarth]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> I'd describe it more as the older kernels have a bug that allows regular
>> users to destroy their IDE drives. This bug is fixed in 2.6.8 by
>> limiting the potentially destructive commands (needed for CD writing) to
>> only the root user. Further work is ongoing to safely allow regular
>> users to do CD writing without the risk of destroying their hardware.
> 
> Thank you for explaining the problem.  How does one track progress on a 
> particular issue such as this?

Try adding yourself to the Cc: list for Bug #130576 
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130576)

Paul.