> You see you omitted the most important part which is how do you try to > burn with k3b? Are you running the command as root from the terminal > or are you clicking on the icon? In the latter case k3b will not run > with root privileges (unless installed suid) so it won't be able to do > exactly what the error message shows. > > But if you run it as root from the terminal it should work! So which on was it? > > F:-) i've tried both and get the same message. prior to this just clicking on k3b did work fine before. i think its something more than just w/ k3b though. As like i've posted on here I cant mount or unmount except with that one specific mount. the regular mount doesnt work. just clicking on the device in konquror and mount doesnt even work.