Unmounting CD/DVD Drives on FC5

[Joe Desbonnet]

As far as I'm concerned if the eject button is depressed the thing
should come out no matter what the consequence (unless explicitly
locked of course).   It's rather embarrassing to be bragging to
friends and coworkers about stability of Linux only to have to reboot
the machine when they ask for their CD-ROM back in a hurry :)

I understand from a thread a while back there are good technical
reasons for the current situation, but from a user's point of view
this sucks.

My  main reasons for a reboot (in order of frequency)
1. Kernel Upgrade
2. Get a CD/DVD out of its drive
3. Power failure

Joe.



On 6/15/06, Benjy Grogan <benjy.grogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I occasionally have to reboot my computer to eject a DVD.  It seems to
> occur after having switched from another user to the current user.  I
> get a dialog that says "Cannot unmount volume // You are not
> privileged to unmount the volume 'New'."  If user A mounted the
> volume, and then logs out, then when I log in as user B I'm stuck.  Is
> this a common problem/bug and is there a solution?
>
> Benjy
>
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