can't umount cdrom

[Elton Woo]

On October 13, 2003 09:27 am, Justin Georgeson <Justin Georgeson 
<jgeorgeson at lopht.net>> wrote:
> Louis Garcia wrote:
> > Nautilus gives me an error saying the the cdrom is busy whenever I try
> > to eject it. I remember somewhere that it had to do with fam. It's
> > really annoying.
>
> yes it is, i've had it prevent me from umounting smb shares too. fam is
> run out of xinetd, so login as root, stop xinetd, umount, start xinetd.
So ... is / was *that* the reason?  ... I keep thinking it was magicdev,
but even when I kill "that" process, I still can't unmount the cdrom
... in spite of the assurance that the mount point isn't being accessed.

Elton.
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