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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:00:29
Message-Id: 493EB23A.3030501@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error by Andrey Vul
1 Andrey Vul schrieb:
2 > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 03:47, Joerg Schilling
3 > <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >> "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >>> I get the following error:
9 >>> andrey@andrey ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\
10 >>> Professional/shared/vLite.iso
11 >>>
12 > [snip]
13 >
14 >>> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/hd*'. Cannot
15 >>> open or use SCSI driver.
16 >>>
17 > This error is bothering me. It happens even when ran as root, yet I
18 > have /dev/hdc.
19 >
20 >
21 >> You did not install cdrecord correctly (suid root is needed).
22 >>
23 > I need to suid root a program that fails when ran as root?!?!?
24 > Something is very wrong.
25 >
26 >
27 >> You called cdrecord with an outdated dev= argument.
28 >>
29 >
30 > I had permission denied on /dev/sg0 too, so dev= is sort of irrelevant.
31 >
32 > Also, I had the same error during cdrecord -scanbus, even though I am
33 > in the cdrom and disk groups.
34 >
35 > Also, the same error happened when it was run *as root*. And not sudo, but su.
36 >
37 >
38 When I run cdrecord I do it as root with the following command:
39 cdrecord -dev=4,0,0 -gracetime=3 -v -dao -speed=4 /path/to/my/file.iso
40
41 In fact I did not find a translation for "suid root" root to german, so
42 I don't know what that means.
43
44 kh