[ILUG] Grip

[Mark Page]

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 20:57, Ronny B wrote:


> > However, one problem that has me stumped that I would have thought would
> > be simple. Grip will work for me as root but steadfastly refuses to work
> > as user. It will load the CDRom, read it etc. but as soon as I try to rip
> > and 


> OK, here's what I've got:
> /dev/cdrom (which cdparanoia defaults to) is a link to the real SCSI
> generic device. In my case, it's /dev/sg1 - owned by root, group cdrom.
> Permissions r/w for group. I've also got the internal zip drive
> registered as a SCSI generic device, and that seems to move the /dev/sg*
> thingies a bit.
>
> Try ln -s /dev/sg[num] /dev/cdrom, and execute 'cdparanoia -v 1 1.wav'
> on a commandline. It should tell you if the device is wrong, or start
> ripping track one if it's OK.
>
Here's the output:

Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
        Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
                /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
        Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
                No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0

Now, I really don't understand this as it works for root and the symlinks 
work for the dvd player, cdplayer, cd-rw etc. I have /dev/scd0 symlinked to 
/cdrom and only with Grip am I finding the problem.

Surely it must be file permissions somewhere if the link is o.k as root?