Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

[Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:22:14AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> Jason Lunz schrieb:
> > 
> > [...]
> > I've seen it happen where the gnome panel CD player somehow locked the
> > tray when you put in a non-audio disc, and only its eject button would
> > work. Try using it, or killing it and using something else.
> > [...]
> 
> I haven't got X installed yet.

Try 

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock

as root.

Cheers,
Chris

P.S.:  This works for me, but I have a 2.4.0-testX kernel, so YMMV.

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