-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Colin Brace wrote: | Colin Brace wrote: | |> Every so often Fedora stops letting me eject CDs: |> |> $ eject /dev/cdrom $ eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid |> argument |> |> Why does this happen? I've seen both on my desktop as well as my |> laptop, and I saw it under FC3 and well as FC4. Nothing seems to |> solve it except straightening out a paperclip and ejecting the |> disk manually and rebooting. As far as HCI design goes, it is a |> worthless error message. |> | | I posted this a couple of days ago but no response. Doesn't | *anyone* have any idea what is going on? I keep getting it on a | random basis with both my CD and DVD drives. lsof doesn't reveal | any open files. What could it be? It is driving me nuts. | | TIA | try a tail -f /var/log/syslog, eventually there you get further info. there are the two common reasons why those things happen: 1. your cd drive is broken 2. the cd youre trying to use has an error id bet for first one... greetings oliver -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDC2+AxHPquN24yVsRAyyAAJ9dZFui/A0AB1TR9gH0/kosumoRggCgiXY7 rOaAxU8CTCXho0gBe4I/gt4= =FU0X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
