From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQn7I-0005sO-QH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 21:01:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F4581C086; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB331C086 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3003391wwj.10 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 13:59:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=ioNCWZGa/a3dT7GAM5GMX+dn6iNLHOg7ycV2Zcxv5IU=; b=CwnH7vye7qKDtnih73OWQewLzVMceTcVMaIBvZqRHyqvizAK2SAvis6dr+Ht8/m469 pP1oYZP6yXdZ+cv99yMH/DgFqSngRnByEd0A/RAlyYwthYJPcQIon3zV/is5H5dBsrRu 2HI+tv7ID/Gi68ibiXPHjda/j0L0f0y0QbFZY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=OyCHvjWfvp++AOldP8C3Brh7KiFEVZEMbTqI19mbUWt/ss23HiNzw/8V+qfaiZMUpD nB9D4xfq4bLzIRNW8FkXiJmU0A3Q/nNQ9Kh9IUZqhkLF6XtmuOcpEo0UN5rgrHfwM4pF 8HFiJSzM8q5PTiv8XPEdL5QYMF/oOhLCEIorY= Received: by 10.216.240.12 with SMTP id d12mr187725wer.8.1306702769569; Sun, 29 May 2011 13:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g2sm2137852weg.38.2011.05.29.13.59.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 May 2011 13:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome? Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Alan Mackenzie References: <20110529204905.GA5736@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20110529204905.GA5736@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105292258.40127.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6d98a61862a26e85034cb9dac93b2737 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 cat /etc/mtab -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com