On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:23, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> IIRC:
> lsof /dev/cdrom
> or
> fuser /dev/cdrom
>
> and then doing a
> kill -s 9 <PID of process accessing /dev/cdrom>
> as root helps here.
> Not being sure whether that's sane, safe, whatever. But it often helps
> here.
I often find it is because I am sitting in the /cdrom (or a
subdirectory) myself.
> man fuser
> man lsof
>
> IIRC:
> The commands above *might* mean you're getting logged out of X at times
> .. not being sure ... :)
> Most of the time is FAMD, or something like that, that prevents
> umounting the CDROM here.
If you are running Gnome you could try something like
gksu "/etc/init.d/fam stop"
umount the cd followed by
gksu "/etc/init.d/fam start"
Regards,
Iain.
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