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

[Uli Armbruster]

* Norbert Zeh <nzeh at cs.dal.ca> [18.08.2011 21:44]:
> Karol Blazewicz [2011.08.18 2122 +0200]:
> > 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.
> 
> Aah, this seems to mirror exactly what I'm experiencing.  So at least it's a
> known issue, and the good thing is that the status says "Assigned".  It says
> nothing about "eject -T" not working, and on my machines eject -T does not work
> as either root or non-root, but I would suspect that these two issues are
> closely related.
> 
> Cheers,
> Norbert

Just to make it sure that it's not kernel-related, I'm still on kernel 2.6.39 and have the same issue, it works as user and root with eject, but not with the hardware button.