On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM Timothy M Butterworth <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM Charles Curley <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 20:26:16 -0400
>> Timothy M Butterworth <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the
>> > following error messages:
>> >
>> > cdrecord has no permission to open the device.
>> > Modify device settings in K3b to solve this problem.
>> >
>> > I looked through settings and didn't see anything. I tried running
>> > cdrecord from the command line and got the same permissions error. I
>> > was able to use cdrecord to erase the disk with sudo. I tried running
>> > K3b with sudo and got an unsupported error.
>> >
>> > It seems like it may be  group issue. My account is a member of the
>> > following groups:
>> >
>> > tmb@hppavilion:~$ groups
>> > tmb cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev scanner bluetooth
>> > lpadmin
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>> Have you checked the ownership and permissions on the CD drive? You
>> should see something like:
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>> root@hawk:~# ll /dev/sr0
>> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Sep 30 13:47 /dev/sr0
>> root@hawk:~#
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> tmb@hppavilion:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0
> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct  1 20:15 /dev/sr0
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I tried changing it to:

tmb@hppavilion:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0
brwxrwxrwx+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct  1 22:24 /dev/sr0

I still get the same error.


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