[Discuss] K3B problems in Kubuntu

[David Frey]

On Saturday 11 August 2007 4:48:37 pm Murray Strome wrote:
> When I try to launch K3B in Kubuntu, I get the following error message:
>
>     No write access to device /dev/scd0
>     K3b needs write access to all the devices to perform certain tasks.
>     Without it you might encounter problems with UNKNOWN - WSM-52Z
>     Solution: Make sure you have write access to /dev/scd0. In case you
>     are not using devfs or udev K3bSetup is able to do this for you.
>
>
> In the top panel, it shows my CD writer (WSM-52Z), and shows that there
> is an blank CD-R in place. I have had no problems with K3B in Mandriva,
> but don't really know what I should be doing to get it to work in
> Kubuntu (7.04 Feisty Fawn). I installed K3B with my Kubuntu installation
> and have version 1.0 (using KDE 3.5.6). As a user, I have added myself
> to the cdrom group. If I do ls -l /dev/scd0, I get the following:
>
> brw-rw-r-- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2007-08-07 07:29 /dev/scd0
>

Did you logout and login again after adding yourself to the cdrom group?