On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:23 am, [KS] wrote: > Hello all, Hi > I reinstalled Debian Unstable on my machine just a few weeks ago. Today > I wanted to play an audio CD and the CD player program popped up (Gnome > desktop, uses gnome-cd program) to play it. But there was no sound. > Testing alsa player by playing an mp3 (from hard disk) showed no > problems as the music played normally. > > I tried to eject the audio cd from the drive using the button on the cd > player program and nothing happened. Ejecting from the commandline gave > the following error: > > $ eject -v > eject: using default device `cdrom' > eject: device name is `cdrom' > eject: expanded name is `/media/cdrom' > eject: `/media/cdrom' is a link to `/media/cdrom0' > eject: `/media/cdrom0' is not mounted > eject: `/dev/hdc' can be mounted at `/media/cdrom0' > eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using CD-ROM eject command > eject: CD-ROM eject command failed > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands > eject: SCSI eject failed > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using floppy eject command > eject: floppy eject command failed > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using tape offline command > eject: tape offline command failed > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
Yep, looks like your mounted as root and it won't let the user to umount. > On checking the ownership of the /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd (CD writer and > DVD writer respectively), I got the following: > > $ ls -l /dev/hdc > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 22, 0 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdc > > $ ls -l /dev/hdd > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 22, 64 2005-08-15 15:28 /dev/hdd > > Are the ownerships normal? I could not eject the audio cd as normal > user, but there was no problem ejecting as root. I can't understand I as > normal user couldn't do that as I am in the floppy group! It is default for media to be mounted as root. Try seeing if your user is added to the 'cdrom' group (groups user_name). If not, add each user that you want to have access to the cdrom without having to mount root. Alternativly, you can add 'user' to the options in /etc/fstab and reboot. If this doesn't help, please let me know. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
