Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

Hi, Dan Purgert wrote: > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > about the lack of media. Not 100% sure if it's a generic problem, or > just my crappy USB CD drive :) It's a Linux kernel prob

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 17, 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > > about the lack of media. Not 100% sure if it's a generic problem, or > > jus

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

In my experience, `cdrskin -eject` works more reliable than `eject`. Regards, Jörg.

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 17, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-02-17 01:09, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > > > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using > > > CD-ROM > > > eject

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

Hi, William Torrez Corea wrote: > eject: device name is `/dev/sr0' > ... > eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded > > I can't eject the optical drive That was with: eject -v /dev/sr0 ? What do you get from this program run xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -eject all > i try mount the device: > sudo

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On 2025-02-17 01:09, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using CD-ROM eject commandeject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded* I can't ejec

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using CD-ROM > eject commandeject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded* > > I can't eject the optical drive, i try mount th

Re: eject cdrom

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument fwiw: sometimes I get that error and the cdrom ejects fine. what does 'eject -v /dev/cdrom' say (or other permutations of devices you can try)? It may includ

Re: eject cdrom

AybOwan! change(edit) your fstab file as shown as below, /dev/hdc    /media/cdrom    auto    ro,users,noauto,unhide,exec 0 0 now im going to explain above line meaning, o /dev/hdc u can check this by issuing this #ls /dev/cdrom -al o /media/cdrom o auto o ro = read only o use

Re: eject cdrom

--- Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd > > mounted while you try to > > do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without > it > > being mounted? > > > The cd is umounted. > i have tried /dev/hdc, /cdrom, cdrom, /cdrom/, > /dev/cdrom,

Re: eject cdrom

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:30:10PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd > > mounted while you try to > > do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without it > > being mounted? > > > The cd is umounted. > i have tried /dev/hdc, /cdrom, cdrom, /cdrom/,

Re: eject cdrom

> Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd > mounted while you try to > do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without it > being mounted? > The cd is umounted. i have tried /dev/hdc, /cdrom, cdrom, /cdrom/, /dev/cdrom, and all with the same result: eject: unable to eject, last error:

Re: eject cdrom

Alos, make sure nothing is using the dev via mount i.e. a console having and open folder on the device etc.. On Thursday July 21 2005 3:43 pm, p wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:37:24AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a problem ejecting cdrom > > > > as normal user: > > >

Re: eject cdrom

Have you tried using "eject /dev/hdc" ? Is the cd mounted while you try to do this ? Have you tried ejecting the cd without it being mounted? Jose On 7/21/05, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!I have a problem ejecting cdromas normal user:$eject cdromeject: unable to eject, last error:

Re: eject cdrom

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:37:24AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem ejecting cdrom > > as normal user: > > $eject cdrom > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > as root: > > #eject cdrom > (ejects the cdrom without trouble) > > the owner and permisions

Re: eject cdrom

Enrique Morfin wrote: >as normal user: > >$eject cdrom >eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > >as root: > >#eject cdrom >(ejects the cdrom without trouble) > >the owner and permisions: > >$ls -alh /dev/hdc >brw-rw 1 root burning 22, 0 2002-03-14 15:51 >/dev/hdc > >$id >uid=10

Re: eject won't work any more

Joan Tur wrote: 1) What is the line in your /etc/fstab that deals with cdrom? /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom autoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I think this looks okay. Now what is "ls -l /mnt/cdrom"? And as a normal user, what does "eject /dev/scd0" give? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: eject won't work any more

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 15 Desembre 2003 18:02, en H. S. va escriure: > Joan Tur wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 22:21, en H. S. va escriure: > >>Given the above ownership of scd0, the user should al

Re: eject won't work any more

Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 22:21, en H. S. va escriure: Given the above ownership of scd0, the user should also belong to the "cdrecording" group. So either try adding this group to the user's groups, or try changing the ownership of

Re: eject won't work any more

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 22:21, en H. S. va escriure: > Given the above ownership of scd0, the user should also belong to the > "cdrecording" group. So either try adding this group to the user's > groups, or try changing the ownership of the scd0 g

Re: eject won't work any more

Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 16:07,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 21:33, en H. S. va escriure: Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID

Re: eject won't work any more

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 14 Desembre 2003 21:33, en H. S. va escriure: > Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using > > knoppix 3.2 and then changed

Re: eject won't work any more

Apparently, _H. S._, on 12/14/03 15:33,typed: This is a repost, the first one got screwed up, apologies. Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then

Re: eject won't work any more

This is a repost, the first one got screwed up, apologies. Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't wor

Re: eject won't work any more

Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't work any more: 1. as user. When run witn "-v" parameter it sh

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >Hello > > > >H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > >>Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > >>unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > >>"pon dsl-p

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: Hi, First of all a little background: To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user able to connect using dsl-p

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

Hello H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user > able to connect using dsl-provide? At prese

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: > Hi, > > First of all a little background: > To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors). This is a kno

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

H S writes: > I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use "pon > dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user able to > connect using dsl-provide? At present, only root can do that. Add the user to the 'dip' group. You can do this in pppconfig. > Next, for some rea

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:28, H S wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:34, H S wrote: > > --snip-- > > > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do I > > > make normal user also be able to use that as well? > > > > The easiest way is to make the eject binary SUID root. (man chm

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 00:34 GMT, H S penned: [trials and tribulations snipped] > > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user > a

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:34, H S wrote: --snip-- > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do I > make normal user also be able to use that as well? The easiest way is to make the eject binary SUID root. (man chmod for more info) Note that making ANYTHING SUID root is general

Re: "eject" command only works for root

sudo addgroup $USER cdrom On Thursday 31 July 2003 14:02, Robert Storey wrote: > Dear all, > > The "eject" command (which opens the CD tray) works as expected if I run > it as root. But as a common user, typing "eject" on the command line > brings up this error message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>

Re: "eject" command only works for root

Quoting Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > > The "eject" command (which opens the CD tray) works as expected if I run > it as root. But as a common user, typing "eject" on the command line > brings up this error message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> eject > eject: unable to find or

Re: "eject" command only works for root

On Thu, July 31 at 9:02 PM EDT Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The "eject" command (which opens the CD tray) works as expected if I >run it as root. But as a common user, typing "eject" on the command >line brings up this error message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> eject > eject: unable t

Re: Eject problem

Henning Moll wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:28, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc < eject returns an error eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument I got the same problem here. But then i realised, that the command works for root. So i think it

Re: Eject problem

On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:28, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc < eject returns an error > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument I got the same problem here. But then i realised, that the command works for root. So i think it's a problem of permisso

Re: Eject problem

On Sat, July 12 at 7:59 AM EDT Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject -v /cdrom >>eject: device name is `/cdrom' >>eject: expanded name is `/cdrom' >>eject: `/cdrom' is not mounted >>eject: `/dev/hdc' can be mounted at `/cdrom' >>eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipart

Re: Eject problem

Johann Koenig wrote: I thought you had been saying something about having to log out/in to eject (in linux.debian) Indeed, that is true. But somewhere during my troubleshooting, manually ejecting the cd started to work. Then I posted the above to debian-user. Since then I powered down/up my mach

Re: Eject problem

On Saturday July 12, 2003 at 04:30 Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hdd works just fine. > > Hdc doesn't: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /dev/hdc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > I can manual

Re: Eject problem

On Fri, July 11 at 7:24 PM EDT Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /dev/hdc >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc >eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ what about just plain "eject"... i believe cdrom is the default. Shaw

Re: Eject problem

Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Jerry Van Brimmer: /dev/hdc/cdromiso9660 ro,users,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/plextor iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 line those up a bit more, and you should see your problem. try changing 'users' to 'user'. OK, changed my fstab lines

Re: Eject problem

Thus spake Jerry Van Brimmer: > /dev/hdc/cdromiso9660 ro,users,noauto 0 0 > /dev/hdd/mnt/plextor iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 line those up a bit more, and you should see your problem. try changing 'users' to 'user'. -- Nathan Poznick

Re: eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

Am Montag, 17. Juni 2002 06:46 schrieb Dan Jacobson: > Did I do something wrong? > # eject > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > May be it is a bug in eject because it doesn't unmount before ejecting. I get the same error if the filesystem is mounted but the disc is ejected. Af

Re: eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:46:14PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Did I do something wrong? > # eject > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > huh, I didn't use any arguments I'm not sure exactly what's wrong, but "Invalid argument" there isn't referring to your command-line argum

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:35:48 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On my desktop, /dev/hdc is a hard disk. > > Can't the kernel autodetect the devices? If you're running devfs, perhaps ... without devfs, /dev/cdrom is managed in user

Re: eject command fails on cdrom-SOLVED

On Wednesday 22 May 09:53, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 13:19:58 +0200, Riaan Rottier wrote: > > I found the problem... > > > > My user did not belong to the group cdrom. > > On my machine (Titanium), /dev/hdc (corresponding to the cdrom) has > the group disk, not cdrom. Is ther

Re: eject command fails on cdrom-SOLVED

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 13:19:58 +0200, Riaan Rottier wrote: > I found the problem... > > My user did not belong to the group cdrom. On my machine (Titanium), /dev/hdc (corresponding to the cdrom) has the group disk, not cdrom. Is there something wrong? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:35:48 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On my desktop, /dev/hdc is a hard disk. Can't the kernel autodetect the devices? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:25:28PM +0200, Riaan Rottier wrote: > When I try to eject a cd using the eject command, the system returns the > error: > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device Hi Riaan, does it work for root? If so, it is most likely a permission proble

Re: eject command fails on cdrom-SOLVED

I found the problem... My user did not belong to the group cdrom. Thank you fo all the advice Riaan On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 12:54, Riaan Rottier wrote: > OK there is a link to hdc - > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Feb 23 16:48 /dev/cdrom ->hdc > > I can mount and unmount the cdr

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

OK there is a link to hdc - lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Feb 23 16:48 /dev/cdrom ->hdc I can mount and unmount the cdrom without any problems, it is just the eject command that fails. Running strace eject (when running from /home/riaan) I get the following output: execve("/usr/bin/

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:04:11AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 02:35 am, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:56:42AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > This is true, but why is the link set up only when installing from > > > cdrom? The /etc/fstab file contains a /de

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 02:35 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:56:42AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 19:55:53 -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > Because you probably did not install from cdrom, so the link never got > > > set up. > > > > This is true

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:56:42AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 19:55:53 -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > Because you probably did not install from cdrom, so the link never got > > set up. > > This is true, but why is the link set up only when installing from > cdrom? Th

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 19:55:53 -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Because you probably did not install from cdrom, so the link never got > set up. This is true, but why is the link set up only when installing from cdrom? The /etc/fstab file contains a /dev/cdrom line and there is a /dev/hdc file, so

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

"Vincent" == Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vincent> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 14:22:33 -0400, Robert_L wrote: >> /dev/cdrom here is a link to /dev/hdc (which is the actual >> device file) Vincent> BTW, I had to add the link manually. Why isn't there a Vincent>

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 14:22:33 -0400, Robert_L wrote: > /dev/cdrom here is a link to /dev/hdc (which is the actual device file) BTW, I had to add the link manually. Why isn't there a link by default? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTM

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

Riaan Rottier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > When I try to eject a cd using the eject command, the system returns the > error: > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > It used to work a few months back and I updated some packages since then > but I made no ot

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tuesday 21 May 01:25, Riaan Rottier wrote: > It doesn't make a difference whether the cdrom is mounted or not I get > the same error message. > > Interesting enough when I issue the command from my home directory > instead of the root directory I get the following error: > > eject: unable to fin

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

It doesn't make a difference whether the cdrom is mounted or not I get the same error message. Interesting enough when I issue the command from my home directory instead of the root directory I get the following error: eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom' Riaan On Tue, 2002-05-21

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tuesday 21 May 06:25, Riaan Rottier wrote: > When I try to eject a cd using the eject command, the system returns the > error: > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > It used to work a few months back and I updated some packages since then > but I made no other

Re: eject

Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 12:04:26AM +, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It was my mistake. It should be SyJET drive. (From where > > I sit, I can only see "SyQUEST") :) > > > > The reason that I was looking for such thing was

Re: eject

On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 12:04:26AM +, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > It was my mistake. It should be SyJET drive. (From where > I sit, I can only see "SyQUEST") :) > > The reason that I was looking for such thing was that NT4.0 > can eject the catridge from the popup menu and I

Re: eject

Hi, It was my mistake. It should be SyJET drive. (From where I sit, I can only see "SyQUEST") :) The reason that I was looking for such thing was that NT4.0 can eject the catridge from the popup menu and I thought that there maybe a command do just that. Thanks! Norbert Veber wr

Re: eject

On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 01:37:27PM +, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there is a command similar to > the CDROM 'eject' command for zip drive or specifically > for SyQUEST zip drive to eject the catridge. > > Thanks! as far as I know there isn't, and as far as I