Unmounting CD/DVD Drives on FC5

Benjy Grogan benjy.grogan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 15 17:03:18 UTC 2006


On 6/15/06, Otto Rey <otto_rey at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> FC5 have a lot of problem with privilegies when you switch users. Most
> commons are with sound devices and cd/dvd devices. For example if you switch
> user (without clossing the current session), the new session have no sound,
> because sound devices have exclusive privilegies for the first user
> (session). If you chown your /dev/(dvd device) to the current user, you can
> umount/eject DVD without restarting your computer.

Yeah, I've been hearing the no sound complaint as well.  Are there
plans to remedy this situation?

Benjy

>
> Benjy Grogan <benjy.grogan at gmail.com> escribió:
>  Hello,
>
> I occasionally have to reboot my computer to eject a DVD. It seems to
> occur after having switched from another user to the current user. I
> get a dialog that says "Cannot unmount volume // You are not
> privileged to unmount the volume 'New'." If user A mounted the
> volume, and then logs out, then when I log in as user B I'm stuck. Is
> this a common problem/bug and is there a solution?
>
> Benjy
>
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