Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > Grr. > > On a whim, I tried running the command: > > cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/cdrom --datafile cd.bin cd.toc > > as root. > > Guess what? it worked. > > I rebooted without the ide-scsi crud, and it still worked. But only as > root. > > So, back to the "normal" configuration, /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc. > > running the command as myself fails. Running as root succeeds. > Interesting. Let's look at the device node: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](pts/0):~ 25 $ ls -al /dev/hdc > brw------- 1 gkade disk 22, 0 Sep 23 22:00 /dev/hdc > > Okay, I'm logged in on the console, and RH/Fedora have this stupid > "console user" thing they love so much to do. All the same, check my id: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](pts/0):~ 26 $ id > uid=1000(gkade) gid=1000(gkade) groups=100(users),1000(gkade) > context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t > > Hrm. > > So, something's missing. Is it SELinux? Whoop, another reboot to find > out... > > Nope, that's not it, either, which makes sense, since nothing was logged. > > Interestingly enough, when I try to run this as a normal user, I get > this in my syslog: > > Sep 23 22:12:07 tigger kernel: scsi: unknown opcode 0x01 > > This has apparently been happening all along when I tried this. But not > as root. The truly unnerving thing here is that this all worked fine in > FC3 and FC4 (and RHEL4). So, I'm missing something, but it's not > ide-scsi. Anyone have any suggestions? >
Now that you mention it, I also found I had to burn as root since FC5. Evidently, it's a known bug, and I recall some published workarounds (for k3b, I think), but I just decided to run as root <sigh>. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
