eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mikkel. On the Ubuntu list I saw the suggestion to remove the
>> 70-persistant-cd.rules file, where someone was having a problem with Kaffeine
>> identifying the correct name for the optical device (hda versus scd0).
>>
>> I wouldn't suggest removing the file, but re-naming it (just in case), but
>> shouldn't the next time you re-boot, just re-create the file, based on the
>> fact that Paul only has one optical drive, and the newly created rules should
>> be using cdrom, and not cdrom1.
>>
>> Just a thought, and I'm definately no udev guru.
>>
> Yes, it can be done that way as well - it usually works. But instead
> of renaming the file, move it to another directory. I have a
> directory /root/save just for things like that.

I have just tried that (moved the 70-persistant-cd.rules file to
/root/save) and rebooted. It also repairs the reported problem!

Paul