On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM Charles Curley < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 20:26:16 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > Have you checked the ownership and permissions on the CD drive? You > should see something like: > > root@hawk:~# ll /dev/sr0 > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Sep 30 13:47 /dev/sr0 > root@hawk:~# tmb@hppavilion:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct 1 20:15 /dev/sr0 > > > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
