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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:29 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 F�rst wrote: > > > Dirk Salva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >
