Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly:
> > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the > > cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group > > membership, could be switched off. > > Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical > > button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is > > clearly suboptimal. > > However, if I start Gnome as root, I can eject a CD trouble freely. > > But running as root is also suboptimal. > > So, I thought, maybe this "feature" is another pesky group restriction. > > So I tried adding myself to group "disk", then to group "cdrw", all to > > no avail. I still couldn't eject the disk. > With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of > mount root@acm ~ # mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,noatime,errors=continue) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) /dev/mapper/vg-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0) /dev/mapper/vg-usrportage on /usr/portage type ext2 (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-usrportagedistfiles on /usr/portage/distfiles type ext2 (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-usrsrc on /usr/src type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0) /dev/mapper/vg-home on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0) /dev/mapper/vg-opt on /opt type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0) /dev/mapper/vg-var on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0) /dev/mapper/vg-varspoolmail on /var/spool/mail type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0) /dev/mapper/vg-varspoolnews on /var/spool/news type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-iso on /iso type ext2 (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-old on /old type ext2 (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-vg--backup on /backup type ext2 (rw,noatime) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > cat /etc/mtab root@acm ~ # cat /etc/mtab rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 rc-svcdir /lib64/rc/init.d tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-usr /usr ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-usrportage /usr/portage ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-usrportagedistfiles /usr/portage/distfiles ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-usrsrc /usr/src ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-home /home ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-opt /opt ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-var /var ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-varspoolmail /var/spool/mail ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-varspoolnews /var/spool/news reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-iso /iso ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-old /old ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-vg--backup /backup ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
