Bug 190402

Summary:	gnome-eject does not eject
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Steve Tyler <stephent98>
Component:	gnome-mount	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
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Description Steve Tyler 2006-05-01 22:45:51 UTC

Description of problem:
gnome-eject does not eject.
Here, eject means "open the drive tray".
The problem occurs with an empty drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-mount-0.4-5
kernel 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
Type "gnome-eject" from a terminal window.

Actual results:
$ gnome-eject
gnome-mount 0.4

The drive does not open.
The message "gnome-mount 0.4" is displayed.

Expected results:
The drive opens.
Without arguments, the device /dev/cdrom should open.
There is no documentation on what drive is opened by default,
but the "eject" command opens /dev/cdrom by default.

Additional info:

$ gnome-eject -d /dev/hdc
gnome-mount 0.4

This does not open the drive either.
An error box is displayed that reads:
"Unable to mount media."
"There is probably no media in the drive."

If a disc is manually inserted in the drive and
the drive is manually closed,
then gnome-eject opens the drive.

The "eject" command opens the drive tray when the drive is empty.
I was expecting gnome-eject to behave the same way.

The "eject" command also has the useful option "-T" which will
open a closed drive and close an open drive.

$ ls -lF /dev/cd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdrom-hdc -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdrom-hdd -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdrw -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdrw-hdd -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdwriter -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 30 22:25 /dev/cdwriter-hdd -> hdd

Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2006-05-01 23:15:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

> If a disc is manually inserted in the drive and
> the drive is manually closed,
> then gnome-eject opens the drive.

Should have said, "gnome-eject -d /dev/cdrom" opens the drive.

With a manually inserted disc,
"gnome-eject", without arguments, does not open the drive.
I expect the default drive to open.

Comment 2 Alexander Boström 2007-10-19 17:17:58 UTC

Confirmed on F7.

This is basically two bugs, right? The first one is "gnome-eject doesn't have a
default drive" (which one could perhaps argue it shouldn't have) and the second
one is "gnome-eject doesn't work on an empty drive" (which I would consider a
real problem). The second one is covered here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401689

Comment 3 lexual 2008-01-31 10:34:31 UTC

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365071

These bugs appear related.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 02:48:23 UTC

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 15:52:13 UTC

This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.