Bug#634794: CD-ROM drives don't respond to the eject button here too

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:04:23PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:26:44AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >> Hi Vincent,
> >>
> >> Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> >>
> >> > However, unlike the reporter from the original bug, I can use the
> >> > eject command to eject the drives.
> >>
> >> Please file a separate bug then.
> >
> > Also, don't file that bug against the kernel.  It will be some
> > userland component auto-mounting the disk.
> 
>   Most definitely not.
> 
>   I don't have automounters ;-)... (as the pmount current maintainer,
> I'm quite well placed to know what happens with that respect).

Well, check the mount table anyway, as you may have accidentally
installed a daemon that may auto-mount (e.g. udisks).

>   And eject wouldn't work, then...

eject(1) says:

    If the device is currently mounted, it is unmounted before ejecting.

But mounting a removable drive does disable the eject button (if
possible).  That is why this sounds like auto-mounting to me.

Ben.

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