Re: cannot eject a DVD disc
On 2009-04-10 17:46 +0200, H.S. wrote:
> I inserted a DVD disc in to an extern DVD reader and now I am not able
> to eject it.
>
> The reader is a NEC external USB DVD reader/writer. It was working
> perfectly till a few days ago and seems like an upgrade messed something up.
Which distribution do you use?
> The disc in it is a re-writable DVD with some avi files on it and the
> disc plays properly on a stand alone DVD player.
>
> At present, there is an icon on my desktop called CDROM (wonder why it
> doesn't say DVDROM?) and as far as I can see no application is using the
> disc. The device, /dev/scd0, is mounted on /media/CDROM. Further, the
> device is not being used:
>
> $> lsof | grep -i cdr
> $> lsof | grep -i scd0
>
>
> Trying to unmount or eject gives an error:
> Unfortunately, the device system:/media/scd0 (/dev/scd0) named 'CDROM'
> and currently mounted at /media/CDROM could not be unmounted.
> Unmounting failed due to the following error:
> Device is Busy:
>
>
> Trying to forcefully unmount also does not work:
> $> sudo umount -f /media/CDROM/
> umount2: Device or resource busy
> umount: /media/CDROM: device is busy
> umount2: Device or resource busy
> umount: /media/CDROM: device is busy
>
>
> And I have this process running:
>> ps uax | grep scd0
> root 11717 0.0 0.0 3364 1116 ? S 10:41 0:01
> hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
Did you upgrade hal recently? There is a new version in unstable.
Sven
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