[mythtv-users] MythArchive Error

[Paul Harrison]

alain maisonneuve wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am giving MythArchive a shot, all seems to work well until it  
> attempts to burn.
>
> I got this out of the progress.log:
>
> 2006-09-21 18:31:49 Burning ISO image to /dev/dvd
> 2006-09-21 18:31:49 ERROR: Retrying to start growisofs after reload.
> 2006-09-21 18:31:49  
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/local/mythtv-0.20/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/ 
> mythburn.py", line 3392, in ?
>      processJob(job)
>    File "/usr/local/mythtv-0.20/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/ 
> mythburn.py", line 3232, in proce
> ssJob
>      BurnDVDISO()
>    File "/usr/local/mythtv-0.20/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/ 
> mythburn.py", line 1418, in BurnD
> VDISO
>      f = os.open(dvddrivepath, os.O_RDONLY | os.O_NONBLOCK)
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/dev/dvd'
> 2006-09-21 18:31:49  
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> any thoughts?

 From the README :-

2. The script fails with "ERROR: Failed while running growisofs." message.
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The most likely cause of the error is insufficient file permissions on the
cdrom device. Make sure the user that is running the script can both read
and write to the device that you use to burn DVDs.

How you do that is dependent on how your distribution sets things up. It may
be sufficient to add the user to the 'cdrom' group. You may also have to
relax the permissions on the device itself to allow the cdrom group
read/write access to it.

Paul H.