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

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Tue Aug 23 21:12:26 UTC 2005


You might want to try:

/usr/sbin/lsof | grep -i cdrom   (<-- or whatever your point point is.)

Just to ensure nothing has an open file lurking somewhere.

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On Sat August 20 2005 6:07 pm, 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.




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