cdrom not unmounting

[Clint Harshaw]

Paul Pianta wrote:
> Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:05:29PM -0400, Paul Pianta wrote:
[...]

>>> 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)?
[...]
>> 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.

Here's something I did that seems to have stopped the problem for me:
Click on Redhat -> Preferences -> CD Properties

On the CD and DVD Properties that pops up, I deselected all the items, 
so the CD doesn't get automounted.

Hope this helps,
Clint Harshaw