Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> Hi, Neil. > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of > > > > > > mount > > > cat /etc/mtab > > > > And the output of eject -v > > acm@acm ~ $ eject -v > eject: using default device `cdrom' > eject: device name is `cdrom' > eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom' > eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/sr0' > eject: `/dev/sr0' is not mounted > eject: `/dev/sr0' is not a mount point > eject: `/dev/sr0' is not a multipartition device > eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using CD-ROM eject command > eject: CD-ROM eject command failed > eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using SCSI commands > eject: SCSI eject succeeded > > (This was run as a normal user, not root.) > > Hey, eject -v works! :-) It's still not quite ideal, though. My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only permitted to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be appropriate and TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a user, what do you know? The devs know better, you must trust them! I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
