eject -i no longer works

[fz]

I used to run eject -i 1 to lock my cd-rom, but it stopped working after upgrading to 11.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 1 23:26:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eject
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-02 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Akshay Bhat (nodeax-deactivatedaccount)]

Problem is present in Ubuntu 12.04 release.
uname -a
Linux Sweet 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:22 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Roshni (trinityrosh)]

Am facing the same bug on Ubuntu 11.10 with a Thinkpad 400 laptop

[Manuel Tondeur (sinekonata)]

$ eject -i 1
CD-Drive may NOT be ejected with device button

and yet it can...

I recently upgraded this laptop to12.04, it doesn't work either on my desktop computer that still is with 11.10.

[GonzO (gonzo)]

WORKAROUND (found on http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=7513 , to give credit where its due):

There is a UDEV rule that prevents "eject -i" from working. The following method helps it to get working again, but I have *no* real idea why.

1. open "/lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules" for editing

2. comment out (using the "#" symbol) the following line:

          ENV{DISK_EJECT_REQUEST}=="?*", RUN+="cdrom_id --eject-media $tempnode", GOTO="cdrom_end"

3. If you don't feel like rebooting, reload the UDEV rules with

          sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

Now locking with "eject -i 1" or "eject -i on" should work. I can confirm this to be the case on my Thinkpad w510.

[Thomas (t.c)]

thanks for workaround (which works) - but it would be better when eject -i run out of the box :)

I wanted to prevent my children from opening my media pcs drive :)

[Thomas (t.c)]

if is not possible to query first the locked state with eject -i and if locked dont eject in the udev rule?
i know it require eject as a additional dependency, but it will be nice.

other approach is to give users a other way with udev to prevent cdrom eject...

[Harshal Yanpallewar (yharshal)]

It's still there in ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I'm using ubuntu with windows 10. cd drive keeps ejecting. so irritating.