Anand Buddhdev wrote:
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:05:29PM -0400, Paul Pianta wrote:
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[...]I know this is a common one but I have forgotten it. What is the command for forcing an umount and ejecting a cdrom that keeps giving the message 'device busy' - even when you know the device is not in use (Fedora Core 1)?
You must have opened a file on the CDROM using Nautilus, and now Gnome's "open recent" feature is holding the file open via fam, the file alternation monitor. Fam runs out of xinetd, so restart xinetd (service xinetd restart) and you'll be able to unmount the cdrom.
Here's something I did that seems to have stopped the problem for me: Click on Redhat -> Preferences -> CD Properties
On the CD and DVD Properties that pops up, I deselected all the items, so the CD doesn't get automounted.
Hope this helps, Clint Harshaw
