Since upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10, grip will no longer eject a CD when ripping is finished. There are no obvious complaints in dmesg. grip-3.2.0-24.fc10.i386 This is 100% reproducible. Since upgrading, grip has never successfully ejected a CD. Grip also no longer plays a "beep" sound when ripping is complete. I've checked to make sure these settings did not get lost, and grip is still configured to play a beep and then eject the CD when ripping is finished. The "eject" command-line successfully ejects a CD.
This probably cannot be fixed. What happens if you do "hal-disable-polling --device /dev/sr0" (and replace /dev/sr0 with the path to your cdrom). If this helps then this is a duplicate of bug #196612 which I already closed with CANTFIX.
Indeed, if I do the hal-disable-polling command, grip is able to eject a CD. My question is, what has changed? In Fedora 8 and earlier, this worked perfectly on the same hardware. I understand the last comment of bug 196612, that it may not be possible to fix this in grip. But it's hard to believe that it's totally unfixable since it used to work and until I upgraded to Fedora 10, has always worked.
(In reply to comment #2) > Indeed, if I do the hal-disable-polling command, grip is able to eject a CD. > My question is, what has changed? In Fedora 8 and earlier, this worked I do not know why the behaviour changed. It still works on my system without disabling the hal polling. > perfectly on the same hardware. I understand the last comment of bug 196612, > that it may not be possible to fix this in grip. But it's hard to believe that > it's totally unfixable since it used to work and until I upgraded to Fedora 10, > has always worked. I already invested time in this bug to get it solved and I failed. I do not know how to continue. I already linked grip against libcdio to use the eject functionality from that library and it also failed sometimes. I am out of ideas, if you can find something to fix it, I would be happy to apply your patch.
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