Comment 18 for bug 203574

Yes, happens to me in Karmic. It's sporadic - I think the first eject after a reboot works; but now, nothing works - not the eject button, not nautilus, and not the command eject.

Will reboot and try and figure out more.

Lacking anything better, here's the output of "apport-cli /usr/bin/eject":

Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 6 22:26:59 2009
Dependencies:
 coreutils 7.4-2
 debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2
 debconf-i18n 1.5.27ubuntu2
 dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2
 findutils 4.4.2-1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu6
 libacl1 2.2.47-2
 libattr1 1:2.4.43-3
 libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu13
 libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu13
 libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.27-4ubuntu7
 libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4ubuntu6
 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4build1
 libselinux1 2.0.85-2
 libstdc++6 4.4.1-4ubuntu6
 libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-5build1
 libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-1build1
 libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7
 lzma 4.43-14ubuntu1
 perl-base 5.10.0-24ubuntu4
 tzdata 2009n-1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: eject
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2954): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2954): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2980): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2975): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2974): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -1 and height 24
 (nautilus:6177): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:6235): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed