K3B not recognizing my optical drives [solved]

Hide · 2008-02-02 08:22:06

Here is the error i get when i start k3b:

No CD/DVD writer found.
K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system. Thus, you will not be able to burn CDs or DVDs. However, you can still use other K3b features like audio track extraction or audio transcoding or ISO9660 image creation.

When i go to Settings > Devices, and try to add hardware, I get:

Could not find an additional device at
/dev/cdrom

Any ideas?

edit:
I also noticed that CD/DVD discs are succesfully umnounted, but they never get ejected.Maybe these two are connected

The device was successfully unmounted, but the tray could not be opened

Last edited by Hide (2008-02-02 09:40:48)

drewbug01 · 2008-02-02 09:19:24

Are you sure that you're a member of the optical group? That confounded me till no end for the longest time :-D

Hide · 2008-02-02 09:40:18

Easiest thing

chmod 666 /dev/sr0

solved!

poliveira · 2014-01-19 19:28:45

I have this problem, when I start k3b.

I have installed cdrdao, cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools as dependencies for k3b, I have created burning group and set that settings on k3b "modify permissions", but something is not working as it's supposed, because any device is found:

ll /dev | grep sr0
or
ll /dev | grep cdrom

and no results, so my assumption its that some daemon that should be listening for changes on devices is not working... I assume that could be something with HAL daemon ( that I already have tried and no success) or other...

Screenshots:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … dialog.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … ttings.png

I have read that the problem could be related to KDE (that's my desktop environment) - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24643

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ewaller · 2014-01-19 19:46:08

Closing. This thread is almost six years old.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22

I guarantee that anything KDE that is six years old has zero relevance to a modern system.
Those screens are disturbing because HAL is dead, deprecated, and has been gone from Arch for some time.

Please open a new thread and state your problem. If you still feel it is relevant, go ahead and link back to this thread from the new thread.
Thanks

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#1 2008-02-02 08:22:06

K3B not recognizing my optical drives [solved]

#2 2008-02-02 09:19:24

Re: K3B not recognizing my optical drives [solved]

#3 2008-02-02 09:40:18

Re: K3B not recognizing my optical drives [solved]

#4 2014-01-19 19:28:45

Re: K3B not recognizing my optical drives [solved]

#5 2014-01-19 19:46:08

Re: K3B not recognizing my optical drives [solved]

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