Excerpts from Heiko Baums's message of 2011-08-18 19:03:19 +0200: > Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:23 -0300 > schrieb Norbert Zeh <nzeh@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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 Definitely not true, it works here without being root, but: $ eject eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom' $ eject /dev/sr0 works $ eject -T /dev/sr0 (while tray is ejected) eject: CD-ROM tray close command failed: Input/output error $ sudo eject -T /dev/sr0 Password: eject: CD-ROM tray close command failed: Input/output error or anything else that should pull the tray back in doesn't work on my machine, according to 'man eject' this may simply be a hardware limitation. Nothing was mounted in my test case, there's no CD inserted. I do somewhat understand the behavior of my machine but not the behavior on the original posters machine. In any case, root/sudo is not required.
