Anyone else had a problem with Fedora not letting you eject a CDROM? I close all windows and have nothing running. When I attempt to open it it says "CDROM1 is busy" I have to log out and back in to get the thing to open up. This stinks.

Any workaround would be great...

Can't eject CDROM after using Nautilus:

Seems to be a known bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=106936

workaround:
#> service xinetd restart

Frank, my t-23 does that once in awhile-just open a terminal and type:
eject/dev/cdrom -hope this works for you.

Thanks guys, I tried your suggestion imellon but it just laughed at me. lol
Anyway, I decided that this and the RPM dependency issues (drives me crazy when I'm installing programs) have been enough to make me continue my qwest to another distribution. I have jus successfully finished installing Mandrake 10 and am loving it so far. KDE3.2 is great. I will see what Fedora can do in Core 2 when it comes out stable.

Thanks for your help

have u unmounted it?

if you have the cd icon on your desktop, right click and choose to unmount.. if not then open a terminal and type "eject", that simple

chronotic: If you have the cd icon on your desktop, right click and choose to unmount.. if not then open a terminal and type "eject", that simple

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I'm not a complete idiot.

one question.

I have this same problem trying to eject the disc. I type in eject at [superman@localhost superman] and it brings up the error unmount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy.

If I reboot it, I can get my CDROM out, but it would be nice to do it from the gui.

did fedora come out with an update to fix that?

It was a simple fix

just change the fstab. on the lines for the cdrom drive, make sure it says users instead of owner and delete the word kudzu. Also, only have iso9660 and get rid of the udf or whatever it says by default before iso9660 (sorry, I forget). that should straighten it out.

You can use #fuser -km /mnt/cdrom ,then use cdrom without any pain.

thanks. that solved it.

This definately works in a pinch but I don't recommend it. The reason I say this is because I was typing a paper with OOO and had used the CDROM to pull some files to insert into the paper. When I went to eject it was locked and I needed to add more files from another disk. I used the fuser command and it worked all right, it killed everything that was supposedly using the CDROM including OOO. Luckily I had backed up earlier and didn''t lose too much.

I would just get rid of the kudzu entry in the fstab, take ownership of the drive with users and it works fine on its own after that.