cd wont eject

[Scott Talbot]

Mohamed Ameur wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I use FC3.
>
> I usually have this problem with KDE, and very rare on Gnome, the DR 
> drive won’t eject , I try to umount it and I get the message that the 
> device is busy, even to be ROOT , so I always have to reboot.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ameur Mohamed
>
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First find the file that is open:
/usr/sbin/lsof | grep /media
(assuming your CD is mounted as /media/Something. replace with actual 
mountpoint

if this finds nothing, try

umount -l /media/cdrom (or whatever is appropriate for you)
note this is - l as in lazy not #1

HTH
Scott