Thanks to everyone for his/her suggestions. I THINK the problem was permissions on /dev/sg[01], although I have no idea how the permissions could have changed, and I sure don't see why such a problem should cause a complete system hang !
Have a great day ! On Wednesday 12 March 2008, sara fink wrote: > There are few things that you should check: > 1. Did you enabled scsi support for the cdrom? > 2. check ls -l /dev/sr0 /dev/scd0. I had once such a permission > problem which wouldn't allow me to burn. > > This is how my > > ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 7 08:11 /dev/cdrom -> hdc > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 7 08:11 /dev/hdc > > looks. In your case it should show something like > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 7 08:11 /dev/scd0 ->sr0 > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 7 08:11 /dev/sr0 > > It looks like you need to have scsi support for the cdrom in the > kernel (/dev/sr0). -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | [EMAIL PROTECTED] impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 054 8422076 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]