Re: kdeeject - unmouting media patch
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2003 20:10 schrieb Christian Hubinger:
> Hi!
>
> sorry for the cross-posting but i think this should go to both
> lists.
Fine, have a look at what I wrote below and forward it to the other
list.
>
> On Wednesday 11 June 2003 11:42, Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 13:27, Christian Hubinger wrote:
> > > not really :-(
> > > here on my woody ejectt unmounts the device when i type eject
> > > /cdrom BUT if i'm using the device name eject /dev/cdrom (which
> > > is a symbolic link) eject does not umount and throws an error.
> > > i don't know if thats special to the debian version of eject
> > > but here it definately does not work with the real device names
> > > (as used in /etc/fstab)
> > >
> > > animal@shit:~$ mount /dev/cdrom
> > > animal@shit:~$ eject /dev/cdrom <- does not work
> > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ animal@shit:~$ umount /dev/cdrom
> > > animal@shit:~$ eject /dev/cdrom <- works
> > >
> > > animal@shit:~$ mount /dev/cdrom
> > > animal@shit:~$ eject /cdrom <- works
> > >
> > > so this seems to be a bug in eject. But i think for a quick
> > > workaround of that situation the patch i sent should be ok.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if this behaviour is special to the debian
> > > version of eject, so that i can fill a bugreport about it.
> >
> > seems to work here with eject from SuSE 8.2:
> > vkpc3:/home/vkrause # eject -V
> > eject version 2.0.13 by Jeff Tranter (tranter@pobox.com)
>
> can anyone else reproduce this strange eject behaviour with woody?
> If yes i will send a bugreport.
I did investigate this problem lately. man eject told me:
... Eject may not always be able to determine if the device is mounted
(e.g. if it has several names). If the device name is a symbolic
link, eject will follow the link and use the device that it points
to. ...
So, it's not a bug, it's a feature :-> If you put the "real" device
file (not a symlink) in /etc/fstab, eject works fine with mounted
devices!
Actually, this should be discussed in the debian-user* or some other
lists rather than debian-kde. On this list, you should discuss why
kdeeject does not work (which uses eject to do its job) :-)
>
> greetings,
> chris
>
Tobias
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