Hello.

On my a few years old 64-bit Debian stable machine, I noticed my SATA DVD writer drive likes to close right away after I tell KDE v4.8.4's Dolphin to eject it. If I use terminal's eject command, then it will stay ejected until I manually close the drive.

Why is that happening? Thank you in advance.

So no one knows? FYI, I am still on oldstable (Wheezie) for now.

afair (4.8.4 is a bit old) ultimately some "kdeeject" wrapper (in /usr/lib/kde4/libexec) around "eject" was invoked. Since eject is a toggle action, I assume somewhere in that path there's a double call to "eject -T" invoked.

kdeeject is a script, so I'd try "/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdeeject -T /dev/sr0" and see whether that causes the double trigger. If yes, have a look at the script for suspicious invocation of eject.

luebking wrote:afair (4.8.4 is a bit old) ultimately some "kdeeject" wrapper (in /usr/lib/kde4/libexec) around "eject" was invoked. Since eject is a toggle action, I assume somewhere in that path there's a double call to "eject -T" invoked.

kdeeject is a script, so I'd try "/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdeeject -T /dev/sr0" and see whether that causes the double trigger. If yes, have a look at the script for suspicious invocation of eject.

Cool and thanks. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=121752 said that the newer KDE version, from Jessie/stable, fixed this. I'll have to upgrade to it.