[Novalug] cd burner not working on linux side of dual boot

[Mike Shade]

Bonnie,

All of these symptoms, except perhaps #2, point to permissions / groups as
the culprit.  When the system boots with a cdrom in the drive, it's
automounted as root.  Hence your user does not have permission to eject it.
Silly, doesn't seem to work that way on my default Ubuntu install.

Check to make sure your user is in the cdrom group.  There may be other
applicable groups, I'm not at my *buntu machine to give you the exact names.

-- Mike

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:

> I have Ubuntu Feisty
>
> Sometime in the last several months a couple of CD related things have
> happened.
>
> (1) As the normal user (not su) I cannot eject a cd that was in the drive
> when I booted.
>
> (2) Newly loaded CD's do not appear on the desktop, only under /media
>
> (3) I cannot get the cd burning programs to work. On the other hand I can
> burn a CD from the other boot.
>
> Trying to burn an iso image:
>
> For example if I run FXBurn it opens up, I select the image, select the
> CDR drive the program instantly indicates that the burn has been done.
>
> Where do I start looking to troubleshoot.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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