micke wrote:

> You should try adding your user to the group cdrom (owner is root),

my user is already a member of cdrom group:

>> fil@box:~$ groups
>> users audio video cdrom burning

> since
> that is the group that /dev/cdrom belongs to. If not even that helps then
> it must be somewhere else there is an error. Since it should help giving
> everyone the rights rw to /dev/sr0.Wich other groups are your user a
> member of?

see quote above (plus group "root")

> If you put in a music cd in the cdplayer and starts
> Kaudiocreator, what response do you get? You said that you don't get any
> error msg, but you should get something else.

kaudiocreator reads the cd, then successfully queries cddb, but when I start
ripping, it stalls in pause.

Maybe I have found something. Read this:

fil@box:~$ cdda2wav
cdda2wav: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg1'. Cannot open SCSI
driver.
cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'cdda2wav -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
Probably you did not define your SCSI device.
Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option.
You can also define the default device in the Makefile.
For possible transport specifiers try 'cdda2wav dev=help'.
fil@box:~$ ls -l /dev/sg1
crw------- 1 root root 21, 1 1999-04-13 06:24 /dev/sg1
fil@box:~$ su -
Password:
root@box:~# chmod 666 /dev/sg1
root@box:~# exit
logout
fil@box:~$ cdda2wav
cdda2wav: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg2'. Cannot open SCSI
driver.
cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'cdda2wav -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
Probably you did not define your SCSI device.
Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option.
You can also define the default device in the Makefile.
For possible transport specifiers try 'cdda2wav dev=help'.
fil@box:~$ ls -l /dev/sg2
crw------- 1 root root 21, 2 1999-04-13 06:24 /dev/sg2
fil@box:~$ su -
Password:
root@box:~# chmod 666 /dev/sg2
root@box:~# exit
logout
fil@box:~$ cdda2wav
cdda2wav: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg3'. Cannot open SCSI
driver.
cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'cdda2wav -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
Probably you did not define your SCSI device.
Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option.
You can also define the default device in the Makefile.
For possible transport specifiers try 'cdda2wav dev=help'.

What do you think?

Filippo wrote:

>snip
>
> kaudiocreator reads the cd, then successfully queries cddb, but when I
> start ripping, it stalls in pause.

This I never seen before, starting reading then stops!! Interesting!
>
> Maybe I have found something. Read this:
>
You have !
> fil@box:~$ cdda2wav
> cdda2wav: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg1'. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.
> cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'cdda2wav -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
> Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
> Probably you did not define your SCSI device.
> Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option.
> You can also define the default device in the Makefile.
> For possible transport specifiers try 'cdda2wav dev=help'.
> fil@box:~$ ls -l /dev/sg1
> crw------- 1 root root 21, 1 1999-04-13 06:24 /dev/sg1
> fil@box:~$ su -
> Password:
> root@box:~# chmod 666 /dev/sg1
> root@box:~# exit
> logout
> fil@box:~$ cdda2wav
> cdda2wav: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg2'. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.
> cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'cdda2wav -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
> Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
> Probably you did not define your SCSI device.
> Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option.
> You can also define the default device in the Makefile.
> For possible transport specifiers try 'cdda2wav dev=help'.
> fil@box:~$ ls -l /dev/sg2
> crw------- 1 root root 21, 2 1999-04-13 06:24 /dev/sg2
> fil@box:~$ su -
> Password:
> root@box:~# chmod 666 /dev/sg2
> root@box:~# exit
> logout
> fil@box:~$ cdda2wav
> cdda2wav: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg3'. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.
> cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'cdda2wav -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
> Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
> Probably you did not define your SCSI device.
> Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option.
> You can also define the default device in the Makefile.
> For possible transport specifiers try 'cdda2wav dev=help'.
>
> What do you think?
This is very odd behavior. It seems to scan every target it can find and
moves the cd-drive to next when you change the rights. Very strange indeed.
Perhaps you could try this, your cd-drive is not /dev/sr0 as you thought in
the beginning, it seems that your /dev/cdrom should be linked to one of the
mentioned /dev/sg? .
If you are using a cd-burner and kernel 2.6.x AND you have ide-scsi=/dev/hdx
in your /etc/lilo.conf then you should remove it and make sure that udev
starts properly to fix the links needed.

If you use kernel 2.4.x then you need to figure out witch /dev/srx
OR /dev/sgx that points to your cd-burner. If you only have a cd-reader
then you don't need the ide-scsi=/dev/hdx in your /etc/lilo.conf.

Let me know how it goes. This was interesting, I haven't even been able to
recreate the problem on my comp.

/Micke

Filippo <no.spam@here.ok> writes:

> I am trying to use Kaudiocreator to rip, but I can do it only being root.
> Unfortunately Kaudiocreator does not give me any error message, not even if
> I launch it from the konsole.

oops, your's is k something (mine uses cli). anyways, I don't advocate
to use sudo for this. but here's what I did (uses sudo)(2.4 kernel):

root@AB60R:~# cat /etc/sudoers
# sudoers file.
#
# User alias specification
User_Alias TRUSTED = al
Cmnd_Alias TOOLS = /sbin/mount,/sbin/umount,/home/al/bin/cdrecordeasy
TRUSTED ALL = NOPASSWD:TOOLS


al@AB60R:~$ cat .bashrc
# 3-10-2005 user al bash settings
alias cdr='sudo /home/al/bin/cdrecordeasy'


root@AB60R:~# cat /etc/lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 50
append = "hdd=ide-scsi"

# -------------------------------------

10.2 Slack 2.4 kernel here.
--

about the append line in lilo.conf up above:
(I think so but I sometimes forget)
I had to add the/that one line the append line to
lilo.conf (shouldn't need if use 2.6 kernel)

also: i cheated (to burn cd, needed to be root) I took easy way out and
created a sudo entry with a corresponding alias (cdr) in .bashrc

cdrecordeasy is a Perl script that I use for to burn cd.

works very fine here to burn cd as user al

I'm yet to learn ripping, etc.

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Alan_Cu b c n u