eject not working unless I'm root

[Ric Moore]

On 03/06/2012 03:58 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 6 March 2012 08:40, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Anyone knows what gives with that??
>> My DVD isn't playing and yes, been through the how-to a dozen times. Using
>> Xubuntu 11.10. A data disk is recognized. A few days ago I played a music CD
>> but now that doesn't work either. My user is a member of the cdrom group.
>> There must be a flakey udev rule tossing things into the grinder as I had to
>> sudo eject for it to happen.  Ric
>
> I find that when I burn a CD that it cannot eject the disk and comes
> up with a message asking me to do it manually.  I wonder if that is a
> similar issue.  Next time it happens I will see if will eject with the
> eject command, with or without sudo.
>
> Does eject -v tell you anything?

Hey! It works! There was a flurry of updates last night, and that must 
have been one of the fixes. I also note that the group video has been 
added to my groups. Gonna check things out to see what works and what 
doesn't. Ric



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