Can't play CDs or DVDs

Shagbag · 2006-11-19 16:39:00

When I load a CD into my optical drive, it's recognised and a window comes up in Konqueror asking me what I want to do with it (open a new window, play with Kaffeine, etc.).
No matter what I try to do, I get the error:

Device doesn't have read permissions for this account.  Check the read permissions on the device.

I've looked in System > KUser User Manager and my account is a member of each of the video, audio and optical groups.
My /etc/fstab is:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd  udf       user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 0 1

Can someone please advise me what I'm doing wrong and how I can fix it?
Thanx

Snarkout · 2006-11-19 16:56:46

Is your user in the optical group? Run "groups" as your user to see.

Shagbag · 2006-11-19 17:12:27

Well, I run 'groups' and it doesn't list optical. So I check System > KUser User Manager and under the optical group it shows my account ('n00b') as a member.
So I go into a terminal, switch user to root, and run:

usermod -g optical n00b

thinking this will work.
I exit out of root back into n00b and run 'groups' again. Again, no optical group is listed, just the following:

video audio n00b

I must be doing something amazingly stupid. Can you tell me what it is?

Snarkout · 2006-11-19 17:19:12

You need to exit your n00b session and log in again for changes to groups to take place.

Snarkout · 2006-11-19 17:23:52

I've looked in System > KUser User Manager and my account is a member of each of the video, audio and optical groups.

Huh - I missed this part of your first post - that's very strange that this reports you as a member of optical, but groups doesn't. I have to admit that I've never used that utility before, though, maybe it's broken.

Shagbag · 2006-11-19 17:32:39

Thanks Snarkout! It's worked! I can now hear Jamiroquai!
One more question:
My 'groups' now are:
video audio optical
'n00b' as a group has disappeared. Do I need to have this as a group? My user login is 'n00b' as well, btw.

Snarkout · 2006-11-19 19:19:27

Not sure about that one - some linux distros create a new group for each user if not told to do otherwise, but I thought arch added users to the "users" group by default.

EDIT: the groupadd command you ran changes the user's initial login group. You probably meant to do groupadd -G which appends groups. You should be able to do that with the n00b group and be fine.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-11-19 16:39:00

Can't play CDs or DVDs

#2 2006-11-19 16:56:46

Re: Can't play CDs or DVDs

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