>> This should be a system configuration problem.  From
>> this thread:
>> http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/eject-not-working-unless-I-m-root-td4550555.html
>>
>> "Your user should be in the group "cdrom" in order to eject
>> stuff."
>>
>> I suspect that your user also needs to be in a group for
>> removable media to be able to eject USB drives.
>
> From a previous post:
>
> Group assignments for my normal user account:
>
> disk lp wheel floppy audio video cdrom plugdev power scanner users
>
> No problems as non-root in Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5. I never had problems
> before and group assignments are the same.
>
> pmount, pumount, pmount-hal are installed 750 suid.
>
> Darrell

Ah, OK.  Could be another eject bug then.

I wonder if I need to add rudimentary eject hooks for udisks2 to the TDEHW
library due to the plurality of bugs and problems in the HAL-less eject
command, though this would not be for some time into the future as I have
more pressing matters to deal with.

Tim