Standard Mischief

Part of the recent problem I had with a hard disk crashing is that I have not been properly backing up my data. I’ve got several options, but I wanted to burn plain text data DVDs and keep them under lock and key. The problem is that there has been a long term bug in a few live Linux CDs regarding running K3b as root. You get a message like this:

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for Google’s sake, it says the following:

Unable to find cdrdao executable
K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you won’t be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.

The problem only shows up when you are root, which is what you want to be if you are backing up files. If you want to back up everything, you want to be sure you have rights to read everything. Suggested solutions such as using sudo or kdesu fail also.

One would think from reading the error message that all you would need to do is install the proper package, but as far as I can tell it’s installed properly. You seem to be able to burn DVDs on the command line with growisofs too, although you lose that nice drag-and-drop interface.

Sorry, I’ve as of yet got no answers, but I’ll repost if I find a solution or there is a useful work-around.

also:
Ubuntu bug #91417
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Newsgroup lucky.freebsd.questions