[svlug] Could not find growisofs executable

[Larry Colen]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:23:54PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
# Check permissions on the executable?  Is your normal user allowed to
# execute it?

[lrc at black4est ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/growisofs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89676 Dec 14  2006 /usr/bin/growisofs

# According to 'man mmap', EAGAIN means the file is locked (inmpossible
# for an anonymous map), or too much memory has been locked.  Presumably
# that number is the number of bytes it's trying to mmap().  Check the
# output of 'ulimit -l'.  On my system that's 32kB for both my normal
# user and root, which clearly isn't enough (haven't tried growisofs
# here).  Maybe those limits aren't supposed to apply to root, though
# that doesn't explain what's going on in your situation.

[lrc at black4est ~]$ ulimit -l
32

# 
# I do seem to remember a while ago using growisofs on another system it
# complained when I tried to run it as root (see the growisofs manpage,
# 'NOTES' section).  Not sure if that's part of the problem, either.

Bingo!

For various reasons, I'd been running k3b 
sudo k3b

Mainly because that was what seemed to work. Maybe that's what I need
for CDs, but I need just plain k3b for DVDs.

Thanks.


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