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 1QQnfE-0000DO-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 21:36:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F4501C08A; Sun, 29 May 2011 21:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52671C08A for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 21:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3173022wyi.40 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 14:35:24 -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:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=NbkMVY9o8omk/6zs2KqVWlx9w8L00v8ohBbo6OEg7v0=; b=BRxOv+pm8K1iXUPQyBBQRJY6PWjtky5KCmcUFhi37Ybfx5XCY6pcRViWWL0zxUkT/X kwiQjVM9QqS/yRfkTcigBalR5CmeDPOcOs9Gxj6QjAagt4xSf5vLZoI5Yzo5ayQDgq+g MKOqAsdX716GuqhPUiZCYsmgiwBTBZzaMJcCg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=GpM3fPL8a4nBh/VMxH/YGoApN+2kAwlZcUAlExx+hbie3rOJLFBcvygrngOH2og32A ghCSHeeOc0yeGVty+8gyh41d0v4Vcjqr8zvoqD7uQaUwdvFO3XhJGAXDNkYElGUli8S6 Y2kT9vJjz9k+9V56jUjcCmv4W/EV3koea9U8Y= Received: by 10.216.220.139 with SMTP id o11mr4205549wep.12.1306704923927; Sun, 29 May 2011 14:35:23 -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 h43sm325662wes.35.2011.05.29.14.35.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 May 2011 14:35:23 -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 23:34:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110529204905.GA5736@acm.acm> <201105292258.40127.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110529212050.GB5736@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20110529212050.GB5736@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: <201105292334.34020.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d22ceb38f37eeed4542f212d468a864f Apparently, though unproven, at 23:20 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: > 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 Well that didn't work too well - they're not listed. Obviously gnome doesn't use mount/mtab/fstab to do it's mounting thing. Time for Neil's plan B eject -v for comparison, do it as a user and then as root > > 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com