"J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I have found a problem with the cdrecord package.
> Trying to read audio from an IDE cdrom, I just get:
>
> werewolf:~/tmp/wav> cdda2wav
> cdrom device (/dev/cdrom) is not of type generic SCSI. Setting interface to
> cooked_ioctl.
> 86016 bytes buffer memory requested, 4 buffers, 8 sectors
> #Cdda2wav version 1.11a13_linux_2.4.16-6mdksmp_i586_i586 real time sched.
> soundcard support
> ...
> overlap:min/max/cur, jitter, percent_done:
> ??/??/??/???????   0%Fatal error:  did not drop group privilege.
>  1/ 1/ 1/      0   0%child reader sem request failed
>
> W Child exited with 1
>
> It is not spurious, it happens every time.
>
> I am using a home built 2.4.18-pre kernel, so
> I thought it was something related to kernel version (rpm is built against
> 2.4.16), so started to rebuild things.
> If I rebuild the src.rpm, it also breaks in the same way.
> If I rebuild from original tar.gz (not from src.rpm), it works.
>
> The only diff i see is that when built from src.rpm:
>
>   werewolf:~/tmp/wav> ll `which cdda2wav`
>   -rwsr-s---    1 root     cdwriter   185080 Jan 28 10:30 /usr/bin/cdda2wav*
>
> and for the build from tar.gz:
>
>   werewolf:/usr/bin# ll cdda2wav
>   -rwxr-xr-x    1 bin      bin        257689 Jan 28 10:44 cdda2wav*
>
> once stripped:
>
>   werewolf:/usr/bin# ll cdda2wav
>   -rwxr-xr-x    1 bin      bin        190136 Jan 28 10:44 cdda2wav*
>
> So, just to try:
>
>   chmod 755 /usr/bin/cdda2wav
>
> And, oh surprise, it works....
> What is that problem with group, permissions and real-time sems ?

I switch it to 6755 in cdrecord 1.11 0.a13.2mdk

>
> BTW, the home page for the package claims that the new name for it is
> CDRTOOLS, instead of cdrecord. Are we still on time to change for 8.2 ?

Yes, but this will require to obsolete cdrecord and rename the package
cdrtools, as cdrecord is well known, I have no do the change yet, may
do it in the future, I don't know.

-- 
Warly

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