[Gllug] Failed to open cd device cdroms/cdrom0

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 3 13:47:31 UTC 2005


On Tue 01 Feb, Ian Norton wrote:
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> Ive been messing about with my new dvd burner, thus far ive been able to make
> it burn discs just fine from xcdroast as usual,
> 
> i previously used nautilus-cd-burner to just quick burn accross the network
> jobs quite well for cds, but this time it appears to not want to give me the
> option of burning to a device,
> 
> instead running 'nautilus-cd-burner' once ive picked some files simply 
> gives me :-
> ---
> ** (nautilus-cd-burner:2563): WARNING **: Failed to open cd device cdroms/cdrom0
> 
> ---
> it doesnt appear to be a permissions issue, as a normal user i can access the
> device (and burn with cdrecord/cdrecord-Prodvd) .
> 
> note that this all worked fine with my ide cdrw, this drive simply replaced it,
> (same channel, slave, etc) 
> 
> any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
   Debian may be changing name labels from /dev/cdrom to /media/cdrom

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Chris Bell

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