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Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Hi, Gentoo. |
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> I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the |
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> cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group |
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> membership, could be switched off. |
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> Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical |
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> button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is |
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> clearly suboptimal. |
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> However, if I start Gnome as root, I can eject a CD trouble freely. |
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> But running as root is also suboptimal. |
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> So, I thought, maybe this "feature" is another pesky group restriction. |
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> So I tried adding myself to group "disk", then to group "cdrw", all to |
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> no avail. I still couldn't eject the disk. |
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With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of |
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mount |
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cat /etc/mtab |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |