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Monday, December 15th 2008, 2:06am

Unable to burn CD-RW in K3b

Hi everyone,

I'm unable to burn CD-RW in K3b (error message "cdrecord has no permission to open the device").

Apparently, this is a wide-spread problem and there are a lot of posts on the internet that deal with it, but none of the advice I've found has worked so far.

Any ideas?


I've tried the following:

(1) Updated K3b to the most recent version.

(2) Checked the device name of my CD burner (= sr0), and made sure I have access to it (sr0 is assigned to the group "drive", and I've added myself to this group, and also to "cdrom", just to be sure).

(3) Checked whether I have access to the applications /usr/bin/cdrecord, /usr/bin/wodim, and /usr/bin/cdrdao. Set the permissions to 775 (rwxrwxrx) and the ownership/group ownership to root/disk.


K3B error log:

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System
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K3b Version: 1.0.5

KDE Version: 3.5.10 "release 28.2" 
QT Version: 3.3.8b
Kernel: 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae
Devices
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MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-823S 1.00 (/dev/sr0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, Restricted Overwrite]

Used versions
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cdrecord: 1.1.7.1

cdrecord
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/usr/bin/X11/wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.scsidev: '/dev/sr0'
devname: '/dev/sr0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.7.1
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : 
Vendor_info : 'MAT****A'
Identification : 'DVD-RAM UJ-823S '
Revision : '1.00'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM) 
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) 
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW) 
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite) 
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) 
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM) 
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW) (current)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R) 
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM) 
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk) 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1310720 = 1280 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Speed set to 706 KB/s
Track 01: data 673 MB 
Total size: 772 MB (76:34.60) = 344595 sectors
Lout start: 773 MB (76:36/45) = 344595 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 6
Reference speed: 2
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11078 (97:34/22)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
1T speed low: 0 (reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4
2T speed low: 0 (reserved val 5) 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 12)
power mult factor: 3 5
recommended erase/write power: 3
A1 values: 02 3A B0
A2 values: 5C C6 26
Disk type: Phase change
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 15254
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds.
1 seconds.
0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF C7 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F1 00 04 FF FF FD 50 0A 00 32 00 12 03 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x03 Qual 0x01 (no write current) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk -688 (valid) 
cmd finished after 0.019s timeout 200s
Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
write track pad data: error after 190464 bytes
BFree: 1280 K BSize: 1280 K
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 673 MB written.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 AA 00 00 30 05 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing time: 52.740s
Average write speed 114.6x.
Fixating...
Fixating time: 0.004s
BURN-Free was never needed.
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
/usr/bin/X11/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

cdrecord command:
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/usr/bin/X11/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=4 -dao driveropts=burnfree -data -tsize=344595s -



My work environment:
** HARDWARE **
Laptop: Panasonic Let's Note CF-Y2

** SOFTWARE **
KDE: 3.5.9 "release 49.1"
OS: openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.9-0.2-pae i686
K3b: 1.0.5-49.2-i.586