[arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:23 -0300
> schrieb Norbert Zeh <nzeh at cs.dal.ca>:
>
>> I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive.
>>
>> As root:
>>
>> eject and eject -t work flawlessly
>> eject -T gives
>>
>>     ioctl: Input/output error
>>
>> As non-root user:
>>
>> eject -t closes the tray as expected
>> eject gives
>>
>>     eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>> eject -T gives the same result as for root
>>
>> It doesn't matter whether I do or do not specify sr0 as the device to
>> eject.  The non-root user that I try to execute this command as is in
>> the optical group.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Does anybody else experience this type of problem?  Does anybody have
>> any pointers what may be wrong with my setup?
>
> Eject only works for root. So you have to use sudo to be able to
> ejecting the CDs.
>
> Heiko
>

Not sure if anyone already pointed to this bug report
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25405
It deals with eject not working properly.