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


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