unmounting cdrom drive

[Schlueri]

Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb Anthony Thompson um 02:45:
> 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??

Argl. Because the mail i answered doesn't contain thread-info, so i
repost my answer here. Sorry.

At me, a 'killall -HUP pam' solves the problem. Looks like the pam
process accesses the cdrom. A 'umount -l' does it too.

HTH,

Greetz
Dirk

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