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pappy_mcfae
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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: KDE3.5 eject no longer ejects. <solved> |
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I knew I should have tried it on a different machine. After installing KDE4.0, I can no longer eject optical disks (CD' or DVD's) by right clicking on the disk icon, and telling it to eject. The command fails, and the media stays in the drive.
I know this was caused by KDE4 because everything worked right as rain up to that point. My question is, where is the menu that makes that happen? I'd like to get my functionality back without having to nuke and reinstall KDE3.5. That's a lot of work I'd rather not do.
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Maliwik
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Just a suggestion (I'm not 100% sure if this will fix it), but have you tried re-emerging dbus and hal?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Create /etc/udev/rules.d/51-local.rules with the following content:
| Code: | | ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ATTRS{removable}=="1", MODE="0660", GROUP="plugdev" |
This worked for me.
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pappy_mcfae
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| mziab wrote: | Create /etc/udev/rules.d/51-local.rules with the following content:
| Code: | | ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ATTRS{removable}=="1", MODE="0660", GROUP="plugdev" |
This worked for me. |
It also worked for me...thanks. Now, I'd like to know what made that happen in the first place. It used to work just fine. I guess now that it works again, the reason is moot...however, moot or not, I'd still love to know what happened.
Thanks again!
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mziab
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KDE4 is not at fault. I was able to narrow the problem down to a recent udev upgrade. Optical media, as well as pendrives etc. now belong to the group "disk", instead of the old "plugdev". The above udev rule changes the group back for all removable /dev/sd* devices.
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pappy_mcfae
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Mind expanding! But it makes no sense. Only one machine was effected. Oh well, once again, at least it's back up and running as it should. Thanks again!
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padoor
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:32 am Post subject: |
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nope it did not help.
user cannot mount or eject cd
some problem still persists.
does the fstab line affect this cdrom?
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pappy_mcfae
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Yes, absolutely. An optical drive declared in /etc/fstab shuts down hal's ability to automount them. The same goes for stick drives and other USB storage devices.
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| pappy_mcfae wrote: | | Yes, absolutely. An optical drive declared in /etc/fstab shuts down hal's ability to automount them. The same goes for stick drives and other USB storage devices. |
Not true. I have everything set up in fstab and hal/kde mounts things automatically in exactly the way that is described in fstab. |
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padoor
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it did not make any difference even after commenting the fstab cdrom line .
still user cannot eject the cd nor mount .
looks like hal is independent of fstab or vice versa
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pappy_mcfae
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Gusar wrote: | | pappy_mcfae wrote: | | Yes, absolutely. An optical drive declared in /etc/fstab shuts down hal's ability to automount them. The same goes for stick drives and other USB storage devices. |
Not true. I have everything set up in fstab and hal/kde mounts things automatically in exactly the way that is described in fstab. |
Well, then you have a miracle system.
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