how to eject a CD?

[Corey]

On Friday 16 April 2004 06:41 pm, you wrote:
> When I put a CD in my CDRW drive KDE (auto)reads it and it works as
> expected. But I am never able to remove it. The physical eject button on
> the drive does nothing and when trying to Actions->Eject, KDE says:
>
> couldn't find the program kdeeject %v
>
> Trying to unmount it says:
>
> umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
>
> (I assure you, it should not be and the light on it indicates it is not)
>
> What can I do so that I don't have to reboot every time I want to change
> the Cd?


It's saying that the device is busy because whatever program you're using to
read the disk is still accessing the cd.  Kill the program, then do an 
unmount.

You could also run fuser on /dev/cdrom, to find the pid that's locking the 
device, then kill that process.

Hope that helps!


-- 

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is a crusade, only of the brave.
  - Primus


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