> | 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 Hello all, I'm still running FC3 and get this problem ejecting CDs periodically. I don't have a clue how it happens but here's a hack around it: fuser /dev/hdc identifies processes using the device; then kill -9 x where x is the process ID At least it's better than rebooting! Jerry
