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

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 12:37, Colin Brace wrote:
> 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
>
> --
>   Colin Brace | cb at lim.nl
>   Amsterdam
>   http://www.lim.nl


I seem to remember a similar issue way back when FC3 was first released. If 
memory serves a chmod a+rw on the cd device as root corrected the problem. in 
my case it was chmod a+rw /dev/hdc