Yes, happens to me in Karmic. It's sporadic - I think the first eject after a reboot works; but now, nothing works - not the eject button, not nautilus, and not the command eject.
Will reboot and try and figure out more. Lacking anything better, here's the output of "apport-cli /usr/bin/eject": Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 6 22:26:59 2009 Dependencies: coreutils 7.4-2 debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2 debconf-i18n 1.5.27ubuntu2 dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2 findutils 4.4.2-1 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu6 libacl1 2.2.47-2 libattr1 1:2.4.43-3 libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu13 libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu13 libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.27-4ubuntu7 libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4ubuntu6 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4build1 libselinux1 2.0.85-2 libstdc++6 4.4.1-4ubuntu6 libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-5build1 libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-1build1 libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7 lzma 4.43-14ubuntu1 perl-base 5.10.0-24ubuntu4 tzdata 2009n-1 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic SourcePackage: eject Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:2954): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:2954): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2980): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:2975): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (gnome-panel:2974): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -1 and height 24 (nautilus:6177): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (nautilus:6235): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed -- "Eject" should eject the CD-ROM drive tray if empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs