has no permission to open the device

Kelly lightsolphoenix at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 07:33:13 UTC 2007


On Friday, September 14, 2007 3:14:30 am Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > This problem is new! Likely since August, at the earliest. Burning used
> > to work just fine.
> >
> > The message K3B sends is:
> >
> > "cdrecord has no permission to open the device"
>
> Try "su -"-ing to root in an xterm/konsole, and running k3b from there
> to see if rootiness makes any difference.
>
> -Andy

I noticed at some point (not sure exactly when), I had to re-set cdrecord as a 
SUID root program.  Was it changed at some point (around FC6)?

-- 
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html




More information about the fedora-list mailing list