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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Alan.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
> did opine thusly:

> > Hi, Gentoo.

> > I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the
> > cdrom group.  I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group
> > membership, could be switched off.

> > Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical
> > button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is
> > clearly suboptimal.

> > However, if I start Gnome as root, I can eject a CD trouble freely.
> > But running as root is also suboptimal.

> > So, I thought, maybe this "feature" is another pesky group restriction.
> > So I tried adding myself to group "disk", then to group "cdrw", all to
> > no avail.  I still couldn't eject the disk.

> With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of

> mount

root@acm ~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,noatime,errors=continue)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/mapper/vg-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/mapper/vg-usrportage on /usr/portage type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/vg-usrportagedistfiles on /usr/portage/distfiles type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/vg-usrsrc on /usr/src type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/mapper/vg-home on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/mapper/vg-opt on /opt type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/mapper/vg-var on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/mapper/vg-varspoolmail on /var/spool/mail type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/mapper/vg-varspoolnews on /var/spool/news type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/vg-iso on /iso type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/vg-old on /old type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/vg-vg--backup on /backup type ext2 (rw,noatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)


> cat /etc/mtab

root@acm ~ # cat /etc/mtab
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
rc-svcdir /lib64/rc/init.d tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-usr /usr ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-usrportage /usr/portage ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-usrportagedistfiles /usr/portage/distfiles ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-usrsrc /usr/src ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-home /home ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-opt /opt ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-var /var ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-varspoolmail /var/spool/mail ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-varspoolnews /var/spool/news reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-iso /iso ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-old /old ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg-vg--backup /backup ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0


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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).