Bug#240331: apt: CDROMs must be manually ejected and mounted on Apple/Mac/PowerPC
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:01:30PM -0700, toff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:31:50PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > You had to mount the CD in order to eject it?
>
> Yes, if I don't mount it first I get a message like
>
> 'unable to eject, last error: inappropriate ioctl for device'
That sounds completely backwards. You should not be able to eject a mounted
CD; you should have to unmount it first.
> > All mounting and unmounting is handled by base-config, not apt, in this
> > case. If you want the CD to be automatically ejected, that would need to be
> > done in base-config as well.
>
> I see you reassigned it. Yet the same problem comes up using aptitude,
> apt-get and apt-cdrom.
If what you say is true, it sounds like a kernel problem.
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- mdz
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