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

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hi, Alan.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:56:10PM +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!

You're dashed right.  I now understand what's happening:  When a CD is
inserted and Gnome detects it as an audio CD, the CD drive is locked.  At
the same time, a stupid icon "Audio Disc" appears on the screen.

Right clicking on "Audio Disc" gives an "eject" menu point.  YUCK!!!  If
I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one.  I just want
my drive's eject button to work.

It gets worse.  If you double click on "Audio Disc", it opens a window
with the "files" uselessly displayed.  Right clicking gives a menu point
"unmount" (I kid you not), as though a filesystem were mounted.  This
unlocks the drive.

I feel like screaming.  AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

> I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above)

Can't say I blame you.  What's the choice, though?  I appreciate the
spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome.  Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years
ago) it was anything but uncluttered.  I tried XFCE briefly, but couldn't
get it to run stably.  Besides, it was missing an application to switch
between keyboard layouts, something I absolutely need.

> -- 
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).