FWIW, I've not had any problems like this w/Gnome/Ubuntu and it has
the automount thingies.  the automount stuff does annoy me from time
to time, but it doesn't cause failures when burning CDs or DVDs.

Cheers!
Ty

On 9/12/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
> >> busy)... retrying in 1 second.
> > >
> >
> > That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes.  I think the retry
> > succeeds.
>
>   Right, because the auto-thingies all work by polling the device.  So
> if they happen to be polling the device when wodim tries to open it,
> you get the warning.  Then they close the present poll, and wodim
> retries, and it works.  Then, during the middle of the write, they
> poll again, and kablooie.
>
>   At least, that's my theory.
>
> -- Ben
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