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Benjamin

Paul Mezzanini wrote:
> 
> I had similar errors on my laptop.  I would run kdcd as root and I could do
> everything just fine, but running it as my personal acct caused some
> interesting things to happen.  I just did a `chmod 777 /dev/cdrom`  and all my
> problems went away.  I'm not sure of what kind of security hole that punched
> in my system, but frankly, I dont care :)  I'm the only one who uses my laptop
> and when I upgraded PCMCIA a while ago I kinda broke it so you cant ftp or
> telnet into it.  Sucks when I want to xfer files, great for security :)
> 
> hope this helps
> paul
> 
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> 
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > I consulted Using Linux and RH Linux Unleashed for the full details and
> > step-by-step instructions on how to play a music cd on my CD-ROM.
> >
> > Well, it turned out to be a brilliant success (both in the Windows xterm
> > with its chart) and by running it from the AnotherLeverl menu (with tis
> > box controls).
> >
> > It turned out to be TOO MUCH of a success (pausing, changing tracks,
> > stopping, replaying) because after stopping it (key 7) no matter what
> > command I tried (key 2) or the proper icon in the graphic box), it would
> > not eject. It simply refused to eject. I decided to let it finish the
> > program. It finished. It didn't start playing again, which was a good
> > sign, but still it would not eject. And, of course, if I tried to eject
> > it manually, I quickly found out that the CD drive had frozen.
> >
> > I of course tried to unmount it in every way:
> >
> > umount /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > and other combinations including the full form.
> >
> > I even tried to restart AnotherLevel. No good. I finally had to exit to
> > the console, tried all these commands there and still couldn't free the
> > CD. I finally had no choice but to reboot. That's when the CDRom drive
> > finally gave me my CD back.
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