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.
Did you check that /dev/cdrom is pointing to the right device? or
that it hasn't been deleted?
Did you try ejecting the CD by the device rather than the shortcut?
(i.e. eject /dev/hd? or /dev/sd? )
If it doesn't work specifying the device, I would begin suspecting a
hardware problem, if the shortcut /dev/cdrom is missing or pointing to
the wrong device maybe a software problem? although if you have the same
problem on multiple machines seems to eliminate the hardware problem.
HTH
Scott
