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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:10:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie |
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> did opine thusly: |
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> > Hi, Neil. |
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> > |
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> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > > With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of |
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> > > > |
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> > > > mount |
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> > > > cat /etc/mtab |
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> > > |
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> > > And the output of eject -v |
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> > |
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> > acm@acm ~ $ eject -v |
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> > eject: using default device `cdrom' |
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> > eject: device name is `cdrom' |
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> > eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom' |
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> > eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/sr0' |
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> > eject: `/dev/sr0' is not mounted |
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> > eject: `/dev/sr0' is not a mount point |
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> > eject: `/dev/sr0' is not a multipartition device |
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> > eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using CD-ROM eject command |
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> > eject: CD-ROM eject command failed |
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> > eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using SCSI commands |
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> > eject: SCSI eject succeeded |
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> > (This was run as a normal user, not root.) |
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> > Hey, eject -v works! :-) It's still not quite ideal, though. |
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> My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only permitted |
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> to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be appropriate and |
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> TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a user, what do you know? The devs |
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> know better, you must trust them! |
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> I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above) |
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The only real reason gnome exists is so kde4 users can have someone |
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to sneer at and look down upon, while they frantcally attempt to |
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make kde4 actually do something other than hog RAM and feed their OCD. |
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:) |
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caveat utilitor |
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