Jim Perrin wrote:
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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 Perrin
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.
Here is fstab:
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var1 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=SWAP-hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
And here is mount:
[dick@raroth ~]$ mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
Hopefully, you can see something that I can't that may help resolve this.
Thanks again, Dick