Apparently, though unproven, at 23:20 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> 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 Well that didn't work too well - they're not listed. Obviously gnome doesn't use mount/mtab/fstab to do it's mounting thing. Time for Neil's plan B eject -v for comparison, do it as a user and then as root > > 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
