eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I try to open the DVD burner tray with the command eject, I get
>> the following problem:
>>
>> $ eject
>> eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
>> $
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Use "eject /dev/name-of-dvd-device". If you're not sure what the device
> name is, an easy way to find out is by firing up k3b, which will look
> for it (there are probably quicker ways but this works).

Thanks, Patrick. K3b does not see the inserted CD.

The problem that I am reporting did not occur before. I suspect that
some updates may have destroyed what was correctly working.

Any further ideas?

Paul