[CentOS] Problem opening CD/DVD Drive door

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at suespammers.org
Sun Jul 10 17:21:31 UTC 2005


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On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:27:21AM -0400, Dick Roth wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> {snip}
> 
> >It sounds like the cd is still mounted by your user. unmount the cd,
> >then you should be able to take it out. If you're using gnome/KDE you
> >should have a CD icon. Right click and choose unmount/eject, or from
> >the command line 'umount /path/to/cdrom'. The path to your cdrom will
> >most likely be /media/cdrecorder but it varies.
> 
> Jim, thanks for your input.  I had done each and every one of your
> suggestions.  After right-clicking on the CD icon (gnome) and clicking
> on "Eject", I would get an error message telling me that it couldn't
> perform the operation.  Checking mounted volumes showed no CD mounted.
> Running top didn't raise any flags on application helpers that might
> have maintained ownership or had hooks into a process that would prevent
> operation on the drive.

You might want to try:

fuser /mnt/cdrom

and

fuser -m /mnt/cdrom

These will give you some clue of what is stopping you from unmonting the
fs.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
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