Installed k3b; "no optical device found"[solved]

[pottzie]

I've just installed k3b, and I'm getting a 'No optical device found" error. From what few scraps I could find about correcting this, here's what I've come across:

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larry@hogwash:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0
brw-rw---T+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 20 20:24 /dev/sr0
larry@hogwash:~$ groups
larry sudo audio netdev

I know squat about permissions.

[wuxmedia]

it's a dark art.

google points to HAL, i know squat about HAL.
ps what bbq release are you using?

[pottzie]

Mate 64 bit.

I just installed k3b, haven't rebooted and seen if that changed anything. Going for that now.

Edit: Still the same after a reboot.

[wuxmedia]

whilst i let the brains (plural) of the bunch suggest a solution - i'll finish my foruming and try it out on my MATE install

[swftech]

It looks it is not showing you as a member of the cdrom group. When you ran command "group" it should have listed cdrom. See if adding your user to the cdrom group fixes it.

Try

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sudo adduser larry cdrom

Then log out and back in and see if you still get the error

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[machinebacon]

Hi,

k3b is still using HAL, which is already deprecated (or at least not used in newer Debian releases), see also http://wiki.debian.org/hal

Anyway you need to add your user to the cdrom group first:

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sudo adduser larry cdrom

And then try with another CD writer program, like Brasero, Xfburn, or the command line tools like cdrdao, cdrskin, cdw, bashburn...
k3b is actually a KDE package and requires, additionally, HAL (http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval)

Hope it helps (even though I don't prefer the "try another app" solution, but in our case, this is the only logical step)

[wuxmedia]

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7 upgraded, 93 newly installed, 0 to remove and 138 not upgraded.
Need to get 85.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 192 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Eeek,

but that looks like a damn logical idea, swifty, and bacon 8)

[machinebacon]

^ Might be the 7 upgraded packages that pull in additional megs, but k3b is for sure no lightweight app:

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bbq@grill:~$ depends k3b
k3b
  Depends: kde-runtime
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libk3b6
  Depends: libkcddb4
  Depends: libkcmutils4
  Depends: libkde3support4
  Depends: libkdecore5
  Depends: libkdeui5
  Depends: libkfile4
  Depends: libkio5
  Depends: libknotifyconfig4
  Depends: libqt4-qt3support
  Depends: libqt4-xml
  Depends: libqtcore4
  Depends: libqtgui4
  Depends: libqtwebkit4
  Depends: libsolid4
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: k3b-data
 |Depends: wodim
  Depends: cdrskin
  Depends: cdparanoia
  Depends: cdrdao
  Depends: genisoimage
  Suggests: k3b-extrathemes
  Suggests: k3b-i18n
  Suggests: normalize-audio
  Suggests: sox
  Suggests: movixmaker-2
  Recommends: libk3b6-extracodecs
  Recommends: dvd+rw-tools
  Recommends: vcdimager
  Replaces: k3b-data

@pottzie: do yourself a favor and skip k3b :)

[swftech]

@bacon, will he also have to add read write access or will it be automatic?

[machinebacon]

By default it should (!) be automatic for /dev/sr0, in Debian.

Edit: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia ... sers_group

[swftech]

K, thanks wasn't sure :)

[wuxmedia]

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k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libpulsecommon-4.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

nevermind
hmm i was hoping to check the original error out. got me another.
i'm giving up here 8(
Xfburn's very nice. unless k3b does something extraordinary

[machinebacon]

It does. Depend on kdelibs. Okay, to be honest, it is a good burning prog - just like xfburn (I used to use this frequently) and brasero. But OP should really consider some command line tools, for the funs.

[wuxmedia]

wodims already installed 8)

[machinebacon]

^ as dependency of the snapshooter :)

[pottzie]

Well, did "sudo adduser larry cdrom" and rebooted, still get the same message. And yeah, k3b is a hog, what KDE doohickey isn't? I've gone there first because it has "always" worked, the results have been great for me so far. Guess I could remove it and go with Brasero, but for me k3b has been better.

Haven't had any experience with cdrdao, cdrskin, cdw, bashburn. Could just install them and see, I guess. What's simple?

[machinebacon]

Simple?

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ins xfburn

Have fun :)

[wuxmedia]

^ +1 works for munchbung

but i -have- had permission errors with that too, i just run it as root, prolly a groups thing.

[swftech]

A second vote for xfburn...never had an issue with it.

[machinebacon]

@wux: Crunchbang Statler or Waldorf? I think (!) old Statler still used HAL and not udev, but I might be totally wrong.