Permission problem with sr0 -NEEDS URGENT FIXING

[hendersj]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:16:02 +0000, tony65 wrote:

> Hello Jim......have just filed a full bug report on 11.2's buglist and
> specified it as major. No problems....I also indicated clearly that the
> bug does not appear in 11.0, but does also occur in 11.1 with all
> patches applied. We now wait and see. Thanks again for all your help
> and kind suggestions. Tony
>

Great news, Tony - thanks again for the follow-up and for getting that
bug submitted. :-)

Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

[tony65]

Hi Jim.....the reported bug has been at least noted. I have received an email telling me that I have got the email because I have reported the bug......so I assume it is now at the "conscious level" of the developer team......will post any further developments as they come to hand.. Tony

[hendersj]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:56:01 +0000, tony65 wrote:

> Hi Jim.....the reported bug has been at least noted. I have received an
> email telling me that I have got the email because I have reported the
> bug......so I assume it is now at the "conscious level" of the developer
> team......will post any further developments as they come to hand.. Tony
>

That's one of the other benefits of reporting the bug - you are included
in all communications about the bug so you can follow its progress. :-)

(One can add oneself to an existing bug as well by adding their own e-
mail address to the CC: field in the bug's form)

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

[tony65]

I have finally addressed and solved the problem of sr0 in openSUSE 11.1 and it turns out to be the solution suggested earlier:

YaST -> Security and Users -> User and Group Management

This will open a window in which you as the user are highlighted, now at the bottom select Edit, then the Details tab and from the list that is then revealed, check "disk".

Once that is done, sr0 is instantly available to VLC and Xine. What is curious however is that if you look at the same location in openSUSE 11.0, "disk" is NOT checked. So in 11.0, something else has been done to make /dev/sr0 just work happily. However,my workaround above solves the problem in 11.1 and I would imagine it would also work for 11.2.

Thanks all for the advice and help