Comment 30 for bug 11517

Hi Christophe!

(In reply to comment #28)
> Martin, it's 100% reproducible on my work machine, I can do any test that would
> be useful for you to track down this problem (during the work week). I can
> connect on jabber if necessary.

IRC prefered - pitti on Freenode (I hang out in #ubuntu-devel when I'm at the
computer).

I would love to settle this, it is an utterly annoying bug. To start somewhere,
let's first nail down the ioctl to that it is really the sole cause. I wrote a
tiny python script that issues the ioctl for a given device. I. e. 'python
cdeject.py /dev/cdrom' ejects my CD, 'python /dev/sda' ejects my USB stick (i.
e. powers it off). Don't do that on mounted devices! :)

Can you please check whether these two commands work/fail on your system? (All
the other reporters are of course welcome to test this, too).