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Bug #276

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error when attempting to eject DVD from drive

Added by r a over 12 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
Category:
OS/Net (Kernel and Userland)
Target version:
Start date:
2010-09-28
Due date:
2011-09-14
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
1.00 h
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage

Description

After inserting a DVD into a drive, a warning message "cannot mount volume" is display; however the DVD is mounted and can be accessed. When attempting to unmount the same drive as a normal user via the command line the folllowing error is displayed (GUI only reports "Cannot umount volume").

bash-4.0$ eject cdrom
eject of cdrom /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s2 failed: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.113" (uid=101 pid=4664 comm="") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage" member="Eject" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=458 comm=""))
bash-4.0$ pfexec eject cdrom
eject of cdrom /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s2 failed: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.114" (uid=101 pid=4666 comm="") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage" member="Eject" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=458 comm=""))
bash-4.0$

The DVD can only be ejected by becoming root

root@fred:~# eject cdrom

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