I have this same problem. At least for me what happens is that the process "fam" keeps the cdrom busy. I can only umount it after killing this process. Type "/sbin/fuser -mv /mnt/cdrom" to check if this is your case... Does anybody know what is the purpose of this process?
I've seen this *a lot* under Fedora - glad I'm not the only one :-)
IIUC, 'fam' is used to monitor file updates - so, e.g., you can have your process get a callback when a file changes instead of keep polling it 'manually'.
Obviously, something is setting up a fam monitor of files on a CDROM (or the drive itself). I'd initially suspect GNOME 2.4's nautilus. Unfortunately, there seems no way to interrogate fam as to what it thinks it's up to.
-- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit
