Bug#298891: nautilus-cd-burner does not work due to kernel problem

[Ken Long]

Package: nautilus-cd-burner
Version: 2.8.7-3
Followup-For: Bug #298891


Just wanted to add some information to this bug.  I have a completely 
different CD writer that does not work either.  I did some research on
google and found other people talking about problems with the 2.6.8 
kernel and burning CD's, so I did an experiment.  I booted under an older
kernel and nautilus worked fine.  So, I booted back into 2.6.8 kernel 
and it quit working again.  

Next I tried using xcdroast as myself.  It did not work either.
Then, I tried becoming root and running xcdroast.  It worked fine.
The info I found from searching on google seems to back up these findings.

I talked to someone else and they said that they think the problem may have
gone away in newer kernels, but 2.6.8 is the latest available kernel for sarge,
unfortunately.  

So, it seems like the possible fixes to this problem are pretty limited.
1)  Get the kernel maintainer to backport whatever makes the problem go away
in later versions.
2)  Get a newer kernel version into sarge.  (probably not likely after just 
releasing)
or 3)  Figure out a way to run nautilus-cd-burner as setuid.  (I tried that, 
but it doesn't take too kindly to that)

But anyway, just wanted to give more info to the maintainer.  I really don't
think this is a nautilus-cd-burner issue - it's really a kernel issue.  
Unfortunately, however, this bug renders nautilus-cd-burner pretty useless
at this point. 

-Ken

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages nautilus-cd-burner depends on:
hi  cdrecord                 4:2.01+01a01-2  command line CD writing tool
hi  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
hi  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
hi  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
hi  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-2         The Bonobo UI library
hi  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
hi  libeel2-2                2.8.2-1         Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
hi  libgail-common           1.8.4-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
hi  libgail17                1.8.4-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
hi  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
hi  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-2       library to load .glade files at ru
hi  libglib2.0-0             2.6.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
hi  libgnome2-0              2.8.1-2         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
hi  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
hi  libgnomeui-0             2.8.1-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
hi  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.4-4         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
hi  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.4-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
hi  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
hi  libnautilus-burn0        2.8.7-3         Nautilus Burn Library - runtime ve
hi  libnautilus2-2           2.8.2-2         libraries for nautilus components 
hi  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
hi  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
hi  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
hi  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
hi  libxml2                  2.6.16-7        GNOME XML library
hi  mkisofs                  4:2.01+01a01-2  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
hi  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
hi  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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