Can eject Disk-on-Key but not Ipod

Greycloack · 2006-01-07 09:05:11

Hi,
I was helping my sister with her new iPod nano (usb connection) and encountered a wierd problem.

I managed to mount it and use gtkpod and everything but somehow I can only eject it as root.

doing

eject /mnt/ipod

as user or as root doesn't work. The only thing that does work is

eject -s /mnt/ipod

as root only. if I try to do the same command as a regular user (though it has users and rw in fstab) I get this message :

eject: unable to eject, last error: Operation not permitted

On the other hand doing

eject /mnt/usb

for my disk on key works fine...

It's not a big problem, just annoying to switch to root for this, and also I can't automate it with gtkpod this way...

Anyone know why that may be?

Thanks,
Grey

Komodo · 2006-01-07 13:41:54

Surely it's just a case of unmounting it, rather than ejecting it?

Greycloack · 2006-01-07 15:22:32

Komodo wrote:

Surely it's just a case of unmounting it, rather than ejecting it?

No, I do mean ejecting. When I unmount the iPod it still has the screen of "Do not disconnect" on the other hand after doing "eject" that screen disappears.

Komodo · 2006-01-07 18:49:23

Greycloack wrote:

Komodo wrote:
Surely it's just a case of unmounting it, rather than ejecting it?
No, I do mean ejecting. When I unmount the iPod it still has the screen of "Do not disconnect" on the other hand after doing "eject" that screen disappears.

I don't know what your problem is then; I didn't have the same issue when I used gtkpod.

I now use gnupod - I don't know if there's a gui frontend for it that you could try...

Greycloack · 2006-01-07 21:49:14

How do you disconnect your ipod? When do you know it's safe to disconnect?

Do you use umount? do you remove the module?

Komodo · 2006-01-07 22:03:10

gnupod updates the db etc, it doesn't mount/unmount the ipod for you, so i just manually mount and umount it.

iKevin · 2006-02-06 12:25:57

I have the same issue with my iPod, as do many others. Try setting the sticky bit on eject command so that non root users can use it. This is what I did; however, it is not the best thing to do for security.

A better way would be to add the user to group "disk". I am pretty sure this should fix the "eject" issue.

Kevin

iKevin · 2006-02-06 12:35:02

Well, I removed the sticky bit and added myself to disk and it didn't work. I then notived that these devices belong to group "storage" . That is the group that you need to be in - I think.

I can't try it at the moment since I am adding a bunch of mp3 to my iPod :-)

Kev

iKevin · 2006-02-07 01:13:19

Hummm, being in "storage" didn't work either. It would be nice to figure this out.

Kev

jaboua · 2006-02-07 13:37:40

Is your ipod in /etc/fstab? AFAIK only root can mount/umount stuff not in /etc/fstab, so if not it's worth a shot (remember to set the "user" (all users can mount it, but only the one who mounted it can umount) or "users" (everyone can mount and umount it) option).

Mr Green · 2006-02-07 13:44:03

for user mounting look at hal dbus ivman pmount .....

whargoul · 2006-02-07 13:57:59

This may help you.

iKevin · 2006-02-08 14:09:01

jaboua, the ipod has the correct entry in fstab.

Generally, I find that unloading modules is a bit extreme. "eject" as non-root would be a much better option for removing the ipod.

I am at work now but I did some searching on google last night and I ended up on the kernel developers email list. It seems the getting eject to work as a non-root user is an issue with newer kernels and is listed as a bug.

Arch Linux

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