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I have been ripping some audio CDs with kaudiocreator and am finding that I am unable to eject CDs. This does not happen every time, perhaps every other time. I get a message saying CD unmounted but cannot eject. I am unable to eject by pressing the button on the CD drawer.
The one method I have found whereby I can eject the CD is to su to root and issue
Quote:
eject /dev/hda
I have the cdrom line in fstab commented out.and I am joined to plugdev, etc Running slackware 12. I never encountered this problem in 11.
Did you look at '/etc/udev/rules.d/75-optical-devices.rules'?
Delete the file and restart to see.
Quote:
from '/etc/udev/rules.d/75-optical-devices.rules'
# Local optical devices rules to make links to your
# optical devices
#
# These rules were generated by cdrom-symlinks.sh, but you
# can customize them.
#
# You may edit them as needed.
# (If, for example, your machine has more than one CD or
# DVD drive and you need to be sure they will always be
# given the same symlinks.)
#
# If you delete this file, /lib/udev/cdrom-symlinks.sh will
# try to generate it again the next time udev is started.
There is probably some app accessing the CD in the background. I had the same issue and couldn't eject the CD until I closed Amarok (even though I didn't access the CD using Amarok at all -- it probably automatically did something when the CD was inserted). I may be wrong though -- I'm just offering the simplest explanation.
Thanks. I will have a look at your suggestions over the weekend. It might prove difficult to sort out because I could not discern a regular pattern to it and because I do not often find myself ripping a pile of CDs like I was last night.
I'm also wondering if this is connected to a problem I had. I found via ps that a library - /usr/lib/kde3/kio_audiocd.so - was the problem so I renamed it to kio_audiocd.so.old.
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