Issues ejecting CDs

alex_g · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

I've currently got some issues when ejecting CDs under Gnome. When I press the eject button on the drive the disc ejects, but a window pops up saying "Cannot eject volume <volume-name>".

Trying to solve this I discovered that I'm not supposed to have the cdrom in /etc/fstab. So I removed the entry and tried again, and now when the eject button is pressed two windows pop saying "Cannot eject volume" (it doesn't mention the volume name now), but the CD doesn't eject. I then have to press the eject button again to make it eject.

There are no problems with the mounting of discs when I put them in the drive.

Any suggestions for how I can fix this issue?

Zucca · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

Maybe your user isn't in cdrom group?

execute as root:

alex_g · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

My user is in the cdrom group, so that's not the issue, sorry.

When cdrom isn't in fstab then inserting a cd results in a link to it appearing on the Gnome desktop, and it's possible to access the device via that. However it isn't accessible through the file browser.

When ejecting I also get this message:

"Device to unmount is not found in /media/.hal-mtab so is not mounted by hal"

So it appears that something other than Hal is automounting the drive, but what would that be? And which should I be using for that purpose, Hal or the other thing?

Cheers

Leon_UK · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject:

i thought it was the plugdev group to eject, because it goes through hal, but since yours says hal is not mounting it, i doubt that will fix anything.

but anyway, have you tried running

alex_g · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

Okay, this what the log contains:

Jul 24 21:41:27 meles ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Jul 24 21:41:27 meles ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Jul 24 21:41:27 meles hald: mounted /dev/hda on behalf of uid 1000
Jul 24 21:41:27 meles gnome-keyring-daemon[5884]: adding removable location: volume_label_DVD at /media/DVD

So it seems that gnome-keyring is what's mounting the disc, but I didn't even know it was supposed to that and it seems to be conflicting with hal.

Zucca · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

Hm. I have no experience with gnome, but with KDE.
With KDE I had to install dbus and hal and it worked. But, on my older laptop I had to install pmount also...
You can check which packages you have installed and which aren't installed by executing: