Thank you all for your help. I was just a little confused about the message, because as holly said k3b works fine even with this message.
Holly Bostick schrieb: > Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > >>Hello, >> >>i recently installed K3B. >> >>When i start the application a window pops up and says something like >> "cdrdao will run without root privileges, use k3b-setup to solve >>this problem". >> >>The problem is on my system there is no such setup-tool. >> >>I have Gnome installed but no KDE, is the K3B-setup only available >>when i use KDE. > > > Yes. Or rather, that tool is only available when you enable the "kde" > USE flag when emerging K3b. > > So if you installed with it disabled, you don't have it. > > But you don't need it, for two reasons: > > 1) that message is in error. I get it all the time (every time I run > K3b, which I also compiled without the kde USE flag), and K3b works just > fine. The problem seems to be a combination of a) changes to cdrdao, > which formerly required the sticky bit set to run as a non root user. > This is no longer the case, but b) k3b which was supposed to have been > updated to suppress this message, seems to have not been so repaired, so > it's living in the past. > > 2) If you really do need for whatever reason to set the sticky bit on > cdrdao, you are perfectly capable of opening a root filemanager, > selecting the cdrdao binary and re-setting the permissions manually. > > So relax. Everything is, afaik, all right. > > HTH, > Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
