I tried to burn a DVD with K3B (a data project) but have some problems. K3B does not detect an empty DVD.
I burned a DVD using K3B like 3 days ago, and I did it with success. I don't know what happened, maybe some updates issue?
Anyway, I tried the advice given here: K3b – cdrecord has no permission, but no success, K3B tells me that there's no group like burning (yes, I'm a root).
I tried to burn a DVD with Brasero, and I burned it successfully. However, that does not solve my issue, since I prefer using K3B and simply want to fix it. Any ideas?
$ sudo ls -lah /dev/sr0
brw-rw-rw-+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 mar 6 12:56 /dev/sr0
$ groups
katie adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare bumblebee
Best Answer
Fixing the 'burning group' error:
I can confirm this issue with Ubuntu 14.04 and k3b run as either ordinary user or running with
sudo k3b
. The solution on my system was to manually create the group from the commandline before opening k3b, demonstrated on my system as follows:After this add yourself to the new 'burning' group:
And then going to the k3b configuration screen:
and checking all of the following boxes:
Press 'Apply' and all should now be well :).
Further Error Messages?
If however you managed to create the required group but continue to get odd burning problems and errors consider adding Brandon Snider's CDRTools PPA:
And then installing Jörg Schilling's cdrtools and friends (this will safely replace the Debian fork burning tools):
And finally returning to:
to setup the new applications with the appropriate permissions.
Another few things to try if problems persist:
Finally here is a screenshot showing the final settings on my own system: