Live CD can be inadvertently ejected via hotkey

This issue is still present on Dapper Flight 7.

Confirming this in my system, flight cd 7, accidentally ejected CD, everything went borked... Bumping to critical bc it causes a hard system crash.

The drive is locked because a filesystem is mounted on it, so pressing the hardware eject button should not have any effect. The software eject may override this, however. Confirm?

> The software eject may override this, however. Confirm?

yes, sudo eject ejects the CD, borking the system.

Given the timeframe for Dapper, I believe it could be dangerous to hack GNOME to popup a warning when the user presses the "Eject" hotkey during installation.

This patch adds scripts to casper-bottom and ubiquity-hooks to completely remove the hotkey for "Eject".

Please take this patch with a grain of salt, as it is untested on LiveCD. (hopefully it doesn't have side effects, such as disabling Eject hotkey on post-install)

Feedback is appreciated :)

D'oh, it took about a year to get the hardware eject button work as nicely as it does now, and in the meantime we got lots of bug reports about it, saying that it was imperative that it works...

If we want it, we could hack a gconf key or support for a tag file into gnome-volume-manager to inhibit ejection. But frankly, I do not think we should. If you inadvertedly operate the buttons on your computer, then we cannot do anything about pressing the reset or the power button either.

> then we cannot do anything about pressing the reset or the power button either.

the problem here is: what if the user doesn't know the liveCD shouldn't be ejected? that is what "inadvertently" means to me, not by accidentally pressing the button.

> D'oh, it took about a year to get the hardware eject button work as nicely as it does now,

lol
is it possible to take out the specific code that accomplishes this from the liveCD-only? it would be something like
check if ubuntu is *installed* on boot:
1. yes: enable ejecting - don't comment out code / enable eject script
2. no: disable ejecting - comment out code / disable eject script

of course, this would go to the liveCD and not the installed ubuntus :)

just brain-dumping thanks.

Just thinking aloud : User pushes the eject button (hardware, hotkey, whatever), there are 3 possibilities:
 - medium is not used (mounted) -> eject it
 - vital system files are on the medium (like in live CD scenario) -> two possibilities :
 --- eject is silently denied
 --- a dialog pops up with explanation (like "CD is vital, ejecting would cause a crash"; "Dismiss" maybe another button "Eject anyway" - I know what am I doing )
 - medium is mounted/in use : -> unmount and eject or maybe a dialog, if there are open files or similar

Bug still there in crap^wubuntu 7.04 i386 desktop.

I guess everybody works on the next shiny and useless feature.

(sorry for the tone, but quadrillion, mostly unresolved, bugs in the years do that to a person)

It's also possible to eject using eject(1) from a terminal.

See also bug 32849 (more generally warn about doing dangerous things).

That is in feisty btw

Same in ubuntu 7.10 desktop i386

I just tried it on 8.04. It doesn't lock or freeze. It just doesn't let you run any new programs. I am currently typing this on a computer booted from the liveCD (with the liveCD ejected).

Is that "solved" enough?

Heh, I was about to submit a bug report about not be able to eject the CD. My machine has only one burner, and I want to download and burn an ISO, which I can't.

10.04 LTS

CD can be ejeted.
(HP nw8440 laptop)

Booted the CD, selected "Try Ubuntu", then after a while in dekstop I pushed the hardware eject button,and the CD was ejected.

Same on another PC.
(
GA-7VAXP Ultra - GIGABYTE
Athlon XP 2200+
1.5 GB RAM
)

As of Ubuntu 12.10, the cdrom drive is no longer shown in the UI, the shortcut doesn't do anything and a manual eject from the command line fails as the drive is reported as busy.

I just ran the daily build (see below) and the live CD can be ejected by the hardware eject button.
A CD inserted in the second CD drive is mounted and it's hardware eject button disabled.
So it can be done, just is not for the live CD medium.

Someone, please reopen the bug.
and then fix it ;)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/saucy-desktop-i386.iso
md5sum : eb8ff86ce4fc10a305b918ce28e0908e
.disk/info:
Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta i386 (20131005)