Bug#264891: Bug #264891: Fail to parse cd information correctly.

Ross Burton Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>, 264891@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:02:54 +0000


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 00:16 -0500, Tim wrote:
> I have a similar problem, but I did some digging and it appears that the problem
> (well, my problem) is that it tries to open the device in read-write mode.  On 
> my system, this results in an operation-failed (read-only filesystem). If you 
> run nautilus-cd-burner from a terminal, you see it report the open failures.

As I understand it, with kernel 2.6.8 onwards you need to have write
access to a CD-ROM device node if you want to perform "write" operations
on the device, i.e. writing to a CDR.

Ross
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