Kaffeine in Kubuntu 8.04 is borked.

[Derek Broughton]

Knapp wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/9/1 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>>>> It seems tied up with silly old sudo permissions,
>>>
>>> Why are you even _using_ sudo?  Kaffeine is a user-executable program,
>>> and even if you _did_ need root privilege, you shouldn't be doing it via
>>> sudo - you use kdesudo for gui apps.
>>
>> In another thread the OP had to create a symlink to the cdrom drive.
>> Naturally, that is done as root. 

Sure, but then you wouldn't actually run kaffeine as root - this seems to be
part of the issue.

>> Apearently there are situations in 
>> which Kaffiene cannot find the cdrom drive.
> 
> I did not use the link idea because I saw it is a patch to whatever
> the real problem is.
> 
> I think the real problem is that in older than 8.04 the cdrom was
> called hd0 and now is called scd0. Kaffiene is set to look for hdo and
> has not been updated to look for scd0. When you do update it
> everything is then fine.

IF that's the situation, it has absolutely nothing to do with 8.04. 
Depending on your hardware config, that device change may have happened
long ago (dapper or edgy, in my case).

> All this seems to be related to fdisk settings being outdated do to
> the new use off HAL or something like that that automatically sets up
> the fdisk stuff at boot.

No, nothing like that at all.  Not related to hal _or_ fdisk.  Just check
your fstab.
-- 
derek