RE: Eject fails!?
Make sure you have permissions to WRITE to the CDROM device (something like /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc or so).
Best practice is assigning the cdrom group to this device, give it write permission and add users to this group.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Steigerwald [mailto:Martin@Lichtvoll.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:29 PM
> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Eject fails!?
>
>
> Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 12:22 schrieb Dirk Salva:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:52:03AM +0100, Ulrich Fürst wrote:
> > > Dirk Salva <dsalva@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > on my KDE 3.3.1 (Debian Sarge) "Laufwerkseinbindung loesen" =
> > > > ejecting a CD does not work. I get the errormessage
> "Keject failed"
> > > > or so. Whats that? Is it a missing dependency? What does this
> > > > menu-function depends on?
> > >
> > > I had the same some days ago. Stopping udftools solved
> it. The packet
> > > cd writer does access a umounted cd, too.
> >
> > No, udftools are not installed. But after "eject failed" I cannot
> > open my CD-ROM with button. I get no message that drive is in
> > progress, only the above "ejct failed". Only emergency-eject with
> > a tool or reboot works:-(
>
> Hello,
>
> one thing always worked on my IBM ThinkPad T23:
>
> su
> eject /dev/dvd
>
> When being used as a regular user the eject command
> regularily failed with
> an error message about an invalid parameter even when it
> worked which was
> not the case all of the trials. I guess KDE uses this command
> as I got an
> error message from KDE too, also when the eject worked correctly.
>
> But since a few days or a week "eject" works without error
> message as a
> user too.
>
> Seems some bug has been fixed.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
>
> --
> Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
>
>
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