Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

[Indi]

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

The only real reason gnome exists is so kde4 users can have someone 
to sneer at and look down upon, while they frantcally attempt to 
make kde4 actually do something other than hog RAM and feed their OCD.
:)

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