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>I see this dialog when I start <SPAN
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the device in the <SPAN
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>cdrom field of the
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associated with your <SPAN
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> The device file normally belongs to user root in group root, and does not
allow normal users to open it for reading, writing, or execution directly. This
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must be able to get a read-only file descriptor referring to the <SPAN
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control the <SPAN
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> If you have the root password, you can fix this quickly and easily.
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>I can't get the <SPAN
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detailed information about what may be going wrong?</P
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> </B
>If you experience trouble with the <SPAN
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>CDDB</SPAN
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functionality try to starting <SPAN
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>KSCD</SPAN
> from the command line with the
<TT
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