problems ejecting CDROM in Debian

carspidey · 03-23-2006, 04:48 PM

For some reason i can't eject my cdrom...
before i could not even umount it.. so now, before i'd type umount /media/cdrom
now i type umount -l /media/cdrom
and there is no problem unmounting it...however, i can't eject it at all...
SO i have to restart the session and when it's booting up i press on the thing and it ejects it...... has anybody have this problem???
I looked online and many people seem to have this problem??? does anyone know how to fix it?
Any help???

rickh · 03-23-2006, 04:49 PM

Right click on the CDROM icon, and select 'Eject'

carspidey · 03-24-2006, 12:03 AM

i did try that too and does not seem to work...I mean, the cdrom is unmounted, how do i eject it??

kencaz · 03-24-2006, 12:19 AM

Well if it is unmounted (and you did not get any "busy" errors when un-mounting), you should be able to eject using:

eject /media/cdrom

Try it in both user and root. Also check your fstab that it is actually mounting in /media/cdrom

KC