CD eject won't work: "unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument"

[Colin Brace]

Colin Brace wrote:

> Every so often Fedora stops letting me eject CDs:
>
> $ eject /dev/cdrom
> $ eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
>
> Why does this happen? I've seen both on my desktop as well as my 
> laptop, and I saw it under FC3 and well as FC4. Nothing seems to solve 
> it except straightening out a paperclip and ejecting the disk manually 
> and rebooting. As far as HCI design goes, it is a worthless error 
> message.
>

I posted this a couple of days ago but no response. Doesn't *anyone* 
have any idea what is going on? I keep getting it on a random basis with 
both my CD and DVD drives. lsof doesn't reveal any open files. What 
could it be? It is driving me nuts.

TIA

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  Colin Brace | cb at lim.nl
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