The error message is really bad, but the author didn't take much care
about the multi-user concepts for CD-burning of the different distros
yet, the original package had even some check that only "root" can start
it. I have removed this check when I made an RPM for Mandrake out of it.
So the original author never came into your situation, because it seems
that he tested the program only logged in as "root". Recently he sent me
an e-mail that he is working on his own concept for secure burning in
multi-user environments, so there will be a new version soon which
perhaps has even a better concept then Linux Mandrake with its
"cdwriter" group. But the "cdwriter" group concept in Mandrake is valid
for cdrecord itself and all frontends, so trying GNOME Toaster when one
is not in "cdwriter" will not work, too, but it will perhaps give a
better error message.
Not bundling cdrecord with X-CD-Roast is a concept which started with
X-CD-Roast 0.98. And I think it is a good concept, many distros ship
both cdrecord and X-CD-Roast 0.96(ex2) and so they waste disk space with
two copies of cdrecord. In addition, the user is confused by having two
different versions of cdrecord (separate 1.9 and x-CD-Roast with 1.6).
Till
Steve Fox wrote:
>
> Ok, I knew I had to be a member of the cdwriters group, but that's an
> poor error message none the less. Thanks for helping to find the
> problem. Anyone know why xcdroast is no longer bundled with its own
> cdrecord? Need new features that the crusty version doesn't have?
>
