On Fri, 13 May 2005 17:00:20 +0100 Ian disseminated the following: > On Friday 13 May 2005 16:36, Miark wrote: > > On Fri, 13 May 2005 10:05:32 +0100, Margot wrote: > > > > [a half-mile of useless quotes snipped--take a hint people] > > > > > One thing nobody seems to have mentioned so far - to burn > > > successfully, you must use k3b as root, not as normal user. > > > > > > If you open k3b as root - either use a root terminal to open > > > k3b, or use the command kdesu k3b in a run command box and > > > then give your root password - then you should have access to > > > ALL files, no need to copy them to /home. > > > > I've always understood that one should do as little as possible > > as root for security and whatever other reasons. Isn't this kind > > of a Bad Thing (tm) to make people su for such a common task? > > Strange, I'm using K3B 0.11.20 here with cdrdao 1.1.9, cdrecord 2.1.1a01-dvd, > dvd+rw-format4.10, growisofs 5.21, makeisofs 2.1 and haven't gone into root > to burn anything.
Do: uname -r >From what I've gleaned from Tom Brinkman's posts on this subject, it's a kernel issue, not the software you are using to burn. If you did an upgrade, and did not install the newer kernel, your kernel may still be the older patched version. MandrXXX, up to now, had patched the kernel to allow for burning apps to access kernel space directly, but no longer. Something to do with conforming to the LSB (IIANM), which personally I think is a dumb idea, but I'm no expert. To address the previous posts, I don't see why a distro cannot allow for two versions of the kernel, one for people who are setting up their machine as a fully functional desktop box, another for those who are setting said box up as a server and are perhaps more paranoid about security. Anyhow, that's just my somewhat, possibly terribly, misinformed opinion. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:31:41 up 81 days, 15:42, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging." -- Martin Luther
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