Unmouting CDROM ??

[Mark Guzzo]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:55, PatrickM wrote:
> I think I found it...
> 
> It seems to be happening to "older/lq cdroms".
> When inserting them, the contents doesn't come pupping up as they should.
> 
> Only whith those cd's, I have to log off, log in and they can be ejected...
> 
> PatrickM
> 
> 
> "All you have to decide, is what to do
> with the time that is given to you..."
> 
>  --- On Thu 11/13, Zate < zate at superfreeway.com > wrote:
> From: Zate [mailto: zate at superfreeway.com]
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:10:03 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Re: Unmouting CDROM ??
> 
> Happened to me yesterday.
> 
> I had opened a terminal, and was in /mnt/cdrom as my normal user then su'd
> to root to do something. I was NOT in the crom dir as root so I forgot i
> was still in it as my normal user.
> 
> if that doesnt work, try fuser -k /dev/cdrom
> 
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I too had a problem a ejecting a mounted CD, even after making sure I
closed everything that was accessing it.

I didn't use the 'fuser' command (will next time) but I did this..

lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom

and then kill the process ID

just my 0.02 :-)


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