After upgrading to 2.6.8.1, k3b stopped working

[Douglas Phillipson]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:49, Richard E Miles wrote:
> 
>>>Since I upgraded to 2.6.8.1 from 2.6.7 my k3b stopped working.  It can't 
>>>find the "Burning device".  Is anyone else having this problem?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Doug P
>>
>>This problem has been reported and answered many times on this list.
>>The 2.6.8 kernels have a bug which prevents them from writing to CDs.
> 
> 
> I'd describe it more as the older kernels have a bug that allows regular
> users to destroy their IDE drives. This bug is fixed in 2.6.8 by
> limiting the potentially destructive commands (needed for CD writing) to
> only the root user. Further work is ongoing to safely allow regular
> users to do CD writing without the risk of destroying their hardware.
> 
> Paul.

Thank you for explaining the problem.  How does one track progress on a 
particular issue such as this?

Regards

Doug P