On Tuesday 23 August 2005 12:37, 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 > > -- > Colin Brace | cb@xxxxxx > Amsterdam > http://www.lim.nl I seem to remember a similar issue way back when FC3 was first released. If memory serves a chmod a+rw on the cd device as root corrected the problem. in my case it was chmod a+rw /dev/hdc
