cdrom not unmounting

[Paul Pianta]

Anand Buddhdev wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:05:29PM -0400, Paul Pianta wrote:
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>>hey people
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>>I know this is a common one but I have forgotten it. What is the command 
>>for forcing an umount and ejecting a cdrom that keeps giving the message 
>>'device busy' - even when you know the device is not in use (Fedora Core 1)?
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>You must have opened a file on the CDROM using Nautilus, and now
>Gnome's "open recent" feature is holding the file open via fam, the
>file alternation monitor. Fam runs out of xinetd, so restart xinetd
>(service xinetd restart) and you'll be able to unmount the cdrom.
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Cha-Ching!!

You're my hero - thanks heaps!

pantz


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