[paranoia] unable to open cdrom drive

Chuck Martin nrocinu at myrealbox.com
Sat Apr 19 04:33:52 PDT 2003



On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:42:50PM +0200, Ringo Leese wrote:
> I have a problem with 'cdparanoia'. when I want to start it, I get an error
> like this: 
> Unable to open cdrom drive; -v will give more information. 
> The following commands failed to run: 
> readtrack-1: cdparanoia  returned code 1 
> But, if I'm logged in as root, there are no problems! What can I do? 

I'd guess that your permissions are wrong on the device file for your
cdrom drive.  Do you know which device is the cdrom drive?  There is
probably a symbolic link to it from /dev/cdrom.

Chuck

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