Apologies for the delay in replying. I have to say, all this is a nightmare on dialup. Launchpad alone can take up to 5 minutes to load.
I managed to track down the Natty udev, but it requires the upgrade/installation of 24 dependencies--too much of a risk of breaking something else for me to try it. Same with installing another kernel. (And if the problem's in udev, why change the kernel?) Maurice, as I understand it # means you're already root so I don't quite understand # sudo eject -i off. However, I su'd into root and tried # eject -i off and it worked, but only once :-( I will not be opening a new report, because a) Linux Mint isn't on the dropdown list of "affects other distributions" and b) because I have no idea now whether it's a udev bug or a kernel bug and c) all the report would say is, see bug 875543 for details. I haven't got the resources in terms of spare computers or high speed internet access to pursue this on my own. The only reason I posted above was, the bug was set to expire unless someone said something. However, if anyone else has the physical and emotional resources to open a new report, I'd like to know about it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875543 Title: [Dell Inspiron 2500] Can't eject cd rom : Inappropriate ioctl for device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/875543/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
