You might want to try: /usr/sbin/lsof | grep -i cdrom (<-- or whatever your point point is.) Just to ensure nothing has an open file lurking somewhere. === On Sat August 20 2005 6:07 pm, 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.