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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:45 pm    Post subject: Cannot eject CD/DVD Reply with quote

Hi!

I have dbus/hald/ivman for automunting disks in KDE, and I can't eject them.. don't know what is cause of this :? Disks gets properly mounted, but when I try to eject them, they refuse - pressing button on drive does nothing, right click on desktop's CD icon and selecting "eject" gives error, and only way to eject them is through eject command from console (but, only with root permissions).

What can I try to do? If you need more info, please ask.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I presume you are a member of the 'cdrom' group (or 'cdrw' maybe) :wink:

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also the drive gets locked when a CD is mounted so that the drive cannot be opened with the button. This is to prevent the CD from being ejected while Linux is still trying to read from the disk, causing I/O errors.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

infoseeker wrote:
I presume you are a member of the 'cdrom' group (or 'cdrw' maybe) :wink:


Yes, I am. Shouldn't be?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mmbrothers wrote:
Also the drive gets locked when a CD is mounted so that the drive cannot be opened with the button. This is to prevent the CD from being ejected while Linux is still trying to read from the disk, causing I/O errors.


Of course, but.. If I right click on CD-ROM icon on desktop and select Unmount, still cannot eject it. To be more precise, if I do it immediately after loading, I can, but.. if in meantime start for example k9copy, do something with disk, close k9copy and.. drive get's locked forever:

Code:
KDE eject - KDialog
Eject /dev/cdrom failed!


But it unmounted properly:
Code:
# umount /dev/cdrom
umount: /dev/cdrom: not mounted


Just cannot eject. Only this ejects it:
Code:
# eject cdrom
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

Gives that error but still goes out.

:?

I would like to not use console to eject disks if possible..
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After you mount the cdrom, post the output from mount.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi mmbrothers,

disk mount automatically via dbus/hald/ivman, so I don't see output directly, but, I have little strange logs about cdrom drive.. during inserting disk, got this:

Code:
# tail -f /var/log/everything/current
                - Last output repeated twice -
Jan  5 12:12:10 [su(pam_unix)] session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Jan  5 12:12:11 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
                - Last output repeated 194 times -
Jan  5 12:15:26 [su(pam_unix)] session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Jan  5 12:15:26 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan  5 12:15:26 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jan  5 12:15:27 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
                - Last output repeated 3 times -
Jan  5 12:15:34 [kernel] VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
                - Last output repeated 7 times -
Jan  5 12:16:02 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
                - Last output repeated 3 times -
Jan  5 12:16:02 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jan  5 12:16:02 [kernel] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan  5 12:16:02 [kernel] hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A jesi ga izjeba :) si jos bolestan ?

How long doesn't it work...

Eject should unmount media and and eject the cd.. AFAIK.
Eject doesn't eject the media if anything is currently using the drive, are you shure you are not trying to
eject while the drive is in use ?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could always emerge lsof and use it to see if anything is trying to use the CD before you try to eject the disk. Remember that the disk is considered in use even if you don't actively have any files open on the disk; if the working directory of a shell or program is on the CD then it considers the CD in use.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same problem here, I don't even mount the CD and it locks. As normal user (in the cdrom and disk group, able to mount and dismount it) I run
Code:
$ eject -v
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
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

and nothing happens. As root the output is identical
Code:
# eject -v
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
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

but the CD is ejected. I see that the device spins and ejects during the SCSI command (it's not a SCSI device). If I specify SCSI command only I get
Code:
$ eject -vs
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject failed
eject: unable to eject, last error: Operation not permitted

# eject -vs
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject failed
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

Again it works only from root, even if the command fails. As you see the message for the normal user is "Operation not permitted".

I saw this bug and upgraded from sys-apps/eject-2.0.13-r1 to 2.1.0 (keyword masked). This changes the message but not the behaviour.
Code:
$ eject -vs
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject failed
eject: unable to eject, last error: Operation not permitted

# eject -vs
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject succeeded

Any suggestion is welcome

Edit:

Looking better I found this other bug, with a patch that should solve the problem (I've not tried it yet). The reason for the SCSI command not working seems to be that the device is opened read only, so that the eject command requires root privs (follow the thread in linux kernel mailing list for details).

More strange the CDROM method works with normal user and root if no CD is in the unit, but fails with an I/O error with both users if I have an unmounted disc in.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dgaffuri wrote:

Any suggestion is welcome


I'd the same problem on my laptop and I solved that by emerging udev-073 and ivman-0.5_pre3. The stable release(s) udev-070-r1 and/or ivman-0.5_pre3 seems to have problems.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi! i've the same problem ejecting cds. this is my output:

sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2
sys-fs/udev-070-r1


Quote:
lsof /dev/hdc
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
ivman 9214 root 7r BLK 22,0 5946 /dev/hdc
ivman 9214 root 9r BLK 22,0 5946 /dev/hdc
ivman 9214 root 10r BLK 22,0 5946 /dev/hdc
ivman 9214 root 11r BLK 22,0 5946 /dev/hdc


i suggest the trick is not to use ivman with another automountsubsystem like the one in kde.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The eject problem has been solved in 2.1.4-r1,look at the bug.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dgaffuri wrote:
The eject problem has been solved in 2.1.4-r1,look at the bug.


I just installed 2.1.4-r1 on AMD64 but eject still doesn't work.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joseph_sys wrote:
I just installed 2.1.4-r1 on AMD64 but eject still doesn't work.

It should, does the device have the proper permissions?
Code:
# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Apr 24 21:02 /dev/hdc

You've to be in the cdrom group too.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dgaffuri wrote:
Joseph_sys wrote:
I just installed 2.1.4-r1 on AMD64 but eject still doesn't work.

It should, does the device have the proper permissions?
Code:
# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Apr 24 21:02 /dev/hdc

You've to be in the cdrom group too.


That is what I have.
But I'm experiencing a strange behavior lately. Sometimes when I start booting the DVD tray opens and stays open, it will not close when I push it back or press the button.
The same things is happening after booting, the button is not responding, when I issue a command eject /dev/hdc and the tray opens it stays open and it will not close.
Is the DVD gone (BenQ) I guess I got what I payed for!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check if eject works with root, the change is to allow normal users with write permission to the device to run a SCSI eject command.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dgaffuri wrote:
Check if eject works with root, the change is to allow normal users with write permission to the device to run a SCSI eject command.


as root:

# eject -v /dev/hdc
eject: device name is `/dev/hdc'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
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 succeeded

It makes me wander if there is somethig wrong with me DVD. It works correctly on my x86 machine but on AMD64 the DVD open before the kernel boots and it stays open. It acks kind of strange for some reason.
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