unmounting cdrom drive

[Michael Kearey]

Anthony Thompson wrote:
> I have just made the change from Mandrake to Fedora Core 1 and Im having
> problems unmounting cdrom drive. 
> Everytime i attempt to umount /mnt/cdrom or eject I get the error "cdrom
> busy".
> 
> I am well aware this normally occurs if you are still using the cdrom
> drive. I spent 30mins browsing the fedora list archives but was able to
> get any ideas/solutions..
> 
> I just using the standard Fedora kernel with all updates..
> I never had this problem with Mandrake so I know the hardware..etc is
> working fine..
> 
> Any ideas what is causing this problem??
> 
> 
> Regards
> Anthony
> 
> 

Close Nutilus. Then as root do 'service xinetd restart' . It sometimes 
fixes it.

It may be fam holding on to the drive..fam is controlled by xinetd.

Cheers,
Michael