[SLE] cdrecord stopped working

From: Hans du Plooy (hansdp_at_newingtoncs.co.za)
Date: 02/27/04

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:56:11 +0200

    Hi all,

    Suddenly, out of the blue, my stock standard cdrecord on SUSE 9.0 Pro stopped
    working. Yes, I have changed some things since the last time I used it -
    compiled and installed KDE 3.2 - I don't see that that should interfere.

    Either ways, I'm getting this error:cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open
    '/dev/pg1'. Cannot open SCSIdriver.

    Why cdrecord would like to use /dev/pg1 I don't know - as I understand pg1 is
    a parallel port device of sorts. I have searched the archives and found
    references to the problem, but no solution or at least an rough idea of *why*
    cdrecord would suddenly want to access /dev/pg1 instead of sr1/sg1 - same for
    google.

    Things I've tried:
    -reinstalled cdrecord from the SUSE DVD
    -messed around with the permissions of /dev/pg1
    -messed aronnd with the permissions of the cdrecord binary
    -tried k3bwsetup2 (both stock and 0.11.5 I d/l and compiled yesterday) on the
    permissions-
    tried compiling vanilla cdrecord - couln't get it to compile, couln't get
    smake to compile to use that either.
    -reboot (shock horror :-)

    cdrecord does work as root though, but even setuid root on cdrecord doesn't
    helpcdrdao has no problem workin either as user or root.

    Any ideas why this is bugging me?

    Thanks 

    -- 
Hans du Plooy
Newington Consulting Services
hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
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