On Wednesday 29 December 2004 06:02, - wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm experiencing a rather annoying bug with k3b 0.11.17_1. > > I run k3b as root, and whenever I start it, k3b says: > > Unable to find growisofs executable > K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you won't > be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10. > Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. > > > Well... > dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8 DVD burning software > > Is installed, and.. > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 86348 Dec 29 04:41 /usr/local/bin/growisofs* > > growisofs is there... I copied it to /usr/bin , /usr/sbin, > /usr/local/sbin, /sbin, /bin in a last attempt to unblind k3b. Didn't work. > > I've uninstalled k3b, uninstalled dvd+rw, reinstalled them. nothing. > This doesn't happen if I run k3b as a regular user, but then it doesn't > even find the dvd recorder (without changing loads of stuff that is, > precisely why I run k3b as root via sudo)
I'm running 0.11.17 and growisofs 5.21. I get the same popup when starting k3b as a user but _not_ when I'm starting k3b with kdesu. Then it finds the drives and all the other progs, including growisofs. But the man page of growisofs says in the Notes that executed under sudo, growisofs refuses to start. That being probably the reason why k3b doesn't "find" it... Hope this helps, Beni.
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