ripperX

[drspin]

I got the proggie - got it installed... I run it and it says CDparanoia compans /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible.

the audio CD IS in the drive - it's unmounted...

my /etc/fstab uses /dev/sr0 (reader) and /dev/sr1 (burner- preference) as my cd drives

I prefer to rip from my burner as it has a larger read cache and usually produces better results ( at least under m$)

any ideas????

I just also learned that it says to run ripperX as root or cdparanoia as setUID root -> this seems silly but how is this possible??? When I su in a terminal and then type ripperX is returns the following error message:

DrSpin:/usr/bin # ripperX
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

any ideas?

[Dolda2000]

Can you check the output of the following commands?

ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/sr[01]
cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
cat /etc/pam.d/su

Also, what distro do you have?

[drspin]

cole@DrSpin:~> ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/sr[01]
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 2003-05-15 18:15 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
brw-------    1 cole     disk      11,   0 2002-09-09 14:24 /dev/sr0
brw-r-----    1 root     disk      11,   1 2002-09-09 14:24 /dev/sr1
cole@DrSpin:~> cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
cat: /etc/pam.d/system-auth: No such file or directory
cole@DrSpin:~> cat /etc/pam.d/su
#%PAM-1.0
auth     sufficient     pam_rootok.so
auth     required       pam_unix.so     nullok #set_secrpc
account  required       pam_unix.so
password required       pam_unix.so
#session required       pam_homecheck.so
session  required       pam_unix.so     debug # none or trace
cole@DrSpin:~>

I don't understand the PAM related stuff - but here ya go

Cole

[Dolda2000]

Before you switch to root, check the value of the XAUTHORITY environment variable, then, as root, set it to what you got, like this:

$ echo $XAUTHORITY >/tmp/xauth
$ su -
Password: 
# export XAUTHORITY="$(cat /tmp/xauth)"
# ripperX

[drspin]

Here's the output -

cole@DrSpin:~> echo $XAUTHORITY

cole@DrSpin:~> echo $XAUTHORITY >/tmp/xauth
cole@DrSpin:~> su -
Password:
DrSpin:~ # export XAUTHORITY="$(cat /tmp/xauth)"
DrSpin:~ # ripperX

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
DrSpin:~ #

[Dolda2000]

Oh yeah, I forgot the DISPLAY var. Try this instead:

$ echo $XAUTHORITY >/tmp/xauth
$ echo $DISPLAY >/tmp/xdisp
$ su -
Password:
# export XAUTHORITY="$(cat /tmp/xauth)"
# export DISPLAY="$(cat /tmp/xdisp)"
# ripperX

[drspin]

Once again - negative results

cole@DrSpin:~> echo $XAUTHORITY > /tmp/xauth
cole@DrSpin:~> echo $DISPLAY > /tmp/xdisp
cole@DrSpin:~> su -
Password:
DrSpin:~ # export XAUTHORITY="$(cat /tmp/xauth)"
DrSpin:~ # export DISPLAY="$(cat /tmp/xdisp)"
DrSpin:~ # ripperX
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
DrSpin:~ #

????

[Dolda2000]

Ah... I think I get it. It's kind of a flaw in the distro. What distro are you using?

Try this:

$ echo ~/.Xauthority >/tmp/xauth
$ echo $DISPLAY >/tmp/xdisp
$ su -
Password: 
# export XAUTHORITY="$(cat /tmp/xauth)"
# export DISPLAY="$(cat /tmp/xdisp)"
# ripperX

[drspin]

I'm running SuSE 8.1 -> still have the same problem with the proggie - /dev/cdrom is not accessible by default...

any ideas?

[Dolda2000]

I don't think it should be trying to access /dev/cdrom at all, since that's your CD-ROM. Correct me if I'm wrong, but your writer is /dev/cdrom1, right? Can't you set it somewhere?