xcdroast+wodim can't setup (1st run as root)

Reproduced on a freshly installed 9.04. As a matter of fact, xcdroast is totally broken, see next comment and attached patch.

Xcdroast seems to have become totally useless. The attached patch restores some basic functionality, provided that you manually create a /usr/bin/readcd symlink to /usr/bin/readom.

Some explanations for the (very ugly) patch:
- mkisofs (genisoimage) and cdrecord (wodim) output their version information in stderr.
- most of the tools output a fake version line for frontends such as xcdroast as the *first* line of output in their version information. Don't fetch multiple lines, it breaks the (broken-by-design) check_version_*() routines.
- cdda2wav (icedax) doesn't even bother doing that anymore, skip entirely the check.

With that patch (and the aforementioned symlink), xcdroast will start and configure properly (though for cdrom burning only, afaict). I didn't check whether it would actually burn something correctly though ;P

It also seems that xcdroast completely ignores the '-n' flag, but I didn't bother debugging that.

In my opinion, such completely broken (and useless) software shouldn't be included in the release.

HTH

If you are trying to use the defective fork "wodim" et. al. you will have no
real luck.

I recommend you to install a recent version of the original software from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
http://cdrecord.berlios.de

Be careful and _manually_ remove wodim and all other files that come
with wodim (including the symlinks that point to it).

Alternatively there is a PPA https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-burning/+archive/ppa which can provide cdrtools. It needs some updates for Karmic though.

It seems a patch has been released on the author web site : http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/patches/cdda2wav_version.patch since 2010 the 11th of January (see the News at http://www.xcdroast.org/).

Can someone please add this release of X-CD-Roast (0.98alpha16 from the 11th of January 2010) into the Universe repository ?
The actual X-CD-Roast released on the 7th of April 2009 in the Universe repository is still unusable as is and most of the people using Ubuntu didn't choose this distribution to spend time building programs from source because it is supposed to be simple.
Some users don't even know how to build a program from its source, they just want to use Ubuntu without needing to learn these things.

It still doesn't work in Lucid. Is it fixed for Maverick, or no luck at all?

It still doesn't work in Maverick.

Another bug nobody cares of... xD

Appears to be a patch on debian...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523639

Still not fixed for Oneiric... :(

I've been able to start it by installing cdrecord and replacing wodim's symlinks in /usr/bin. I also had to start it with -n option because of the cdda2wav compatibility error, so I've modified the menu entry to include it.

Yes, still not fixed for Oneiric (08_01_2012)... :(

Not fixed even in Precise.
I wonder why ubuntu do not use original cdrtools from http://cdrecord.berlios.de and instead use a broken and useless fork ????

tibi@:~$ sudo xcdroast

** (xcdroast:25482): WARNING **: Failed to access cdrecord. Please check the permissions and ownership of /usr/bin/cdrecord

tibi@:~$ xcdroast
tibi@:~$ apt-cache policy xcdroast
xcdroast:
  Installed: 0.98+0alpha16-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.98+0alpha16-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.98+0alpha16-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.telepoint.bg/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status