On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:32, James Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD
> reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that
> the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"ยง$ CD out. Is
> there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting?

It seems that some processes "hold" the ejection of your CD ROM unit.
What you can do is an:

lsof -i -P -n | grep "/dev/hdx" 

or 

lsof -i -P -n | grep "/media/WHEREYOURCDROMISMOUNTED" 

This will give you the list of processes that hold your CD.

Good luck !

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David Salgado
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