cd blanking/recording

[advent systems]

Cyber Source,
    selinux was disabled on all thee boxes.
Thanks,
Bob Randal

Cyber Source wrote:

> You don't need scsi emulation. I would suspect your problem is with 
> selinux. If you  weren't careful during your install, it probably got 
> installed and is enforcing. Edit the file /etc/selinux/config and 
> change the line SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled, then reboot. 
> You can then try your had at chmoding cdrecord, now that I think about 
> it, that's probably your entire problem.
>
> advent systems wrote:
>
>> Cyber Source,
>>    My /dev/hdc & my fstab lines match yours, but  my  
>> /usr/bin/cdrecord line says "-rwsr-xr-x" and I cant chmod the "s" to 
>> "x".  (I did su to root)??
>>
>> Bob Randal
>>
>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>
>>> There used to be a permission problem on the 2.6.9 kernels that you 
>>> had to be root with k3b IF you had an actual SCSI drive on your 
>>> system, I think it also had a problem with LVM, but that problem was 
>>> solved in the 2.6.10's, hopefully it's not back again.
>>> Just for shits and giggles, since I'm running FC3 too, I checked my 
>>> perms on /usr/bin/cdrecord and they are "-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  
>>> /usr/bin/cdrecord" and I burn just fine with k3b or nautilus. I 
>>> haven't done the chmod u+s thing in a while, not needed anymore, 
>>> depending on your /etc/fstab. I am running my system on SCSI hard 
>>> drives and LVM but my burner is an IDE, here is the perms on that 
>>> "brw-------  1 peter disk 22 /dev/hdc".
>>> Here is an excerpt of my fstab with my burner
>>> "/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto    
>>> pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0"
>>> Check those settings on your box, especially the fstab line.
>>>
>>>
>>> advent systems wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>    I'm trying to erase and record cd-rw's.  Using k3b when trying 
>>>> to erase I get the error message "cdrecord did not exit cleanly, 
>>>> blanking error".  when using nautilus, I get this message:
>>>> "cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer.
>>>> SCSI buffer size: 64512
>>>> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version 
>>>> (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c    
>>>> 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
>>>> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
>>>> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
>>>> devname: '/dev/hdc'
>>>> scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
>>>> cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
>>>> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive 
>>>> dependent defaults.
>>>> cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
>>>> cdrecord: No write mode specified."
>>>>
>>>> I have chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrecord and cdrdao.    When I start k3b 
>>>> from a terminal as root it works fine which tells me it's a 
>>>> permission problem but I still can't figure it out.  I'm running 
>>>> FC3 w/2.6.11-1.27 kernel.  It's doing the same thing on 3 different 
>>>> boxes.  It worked before which leads me to believe also that 
>>>> updating might have something to do with it.
>>>>    Any ideas welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Bob Randal
>>>>
>>>
>>
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