Bug#240331: apt: CDROMs must be manually ejected and mounted on Apple/Mac/PowerPC

["toff" <toff1@cox.net>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:35:27PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz

Is there something I can do to pin it down further? Would strace help?

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