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

[Oliver Leitner]

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Colin Brace wrote:

| 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.
|>
|
| I posted this a couple of days ago but no response. Doesn't
| *anyone* have any idea what is going on? I keep getting it on a
| random basis with both my CD and DVD drives. lsof doesn't reveal
| any open files. What could it be? It is driving me nuts.
|
| TIA
|
try a tail -f /var/log/syslog, eventually there you get further info.

there are the two common reasons why those things happen:

1. your cd drive is broken
2. the cd youre trying to use has an error

id bet for first one...

greetings
oliver
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