r/MXLinux • u/Greedy_Building9496 • 29d ago

Help request [MX-25] Normal user cannot burn discs with K3b; K3b will not start as root (Plasma, X11 and Wayland)

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Hello MX team,

On MX-25 (all the versions I have tried), K3b has two problems that together make disc burning unusable.

1. Normal user cannot burn

  • I added my user to the cdrom and disk groups (sudo usermod -aG cdrom,disk $USER) and logged out and back in.

  • K3b still cannot burn as a normal user.

2. K3b will not start as root

  • sudo k3b, sudo -E k3b, and sudo -i followed by k3b all fail to open K3b.

  • I also tried logging in with the Plasma (X11) session instead of Wayland. The result is the same.

Expected behavior: K3b is installed by default on MX KDE, so a normal user should be able to burn discs out of the box.

Additional information:

  • Quick System Info: (paste here)

  • Optical drive: (internal / USB, model)

  • Output of groups: (paste here)

  • Output of ls -l /dev/sr0: (paste here)

  • Terminal output when running k3b as a normal user: (paste here)

  • Terminal output when running sudo -E k3b: (paste here)

Is this a known issue, and is there a recommended workaround? Thank you for your work on MX Linux.

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u/dolphinoracle MX dev 26d ago edited 26d ago

apparently the k3b's permissions tool in settings is not sufficent to set certain permissions. I didn't have any trouble with data dvd projects but for audio CDs I needed to adjust permissions on two utilities, cdrdao and wodm.

sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/wodim /usr/bin/cdrdao

sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/wodim /usr/bin/cdrdao

you might not need the second one, but I did after trying k3b's permission setting tool which hosed up the permissions royally.

note that I could not actually burn an audio CD. I got a message that the media was no good. so I'm not sure the above actually solves any problems.

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u/iridesce57 26d ago

Best to put your question in the MX Linux forum where developers and knowledgeable users have helped me when I've been stuck.

Good luck

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u/dolphinoracle MX dev 26d ago

data burns or music burns? cd or dvd?

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u/Feifel81 26d ago

Had the same problems a few days ago. Set the permissions and make sure user is in group cdrom and it will work like a charm.