From: Anthony Anson Sent: 21 February 2005 10:45
However, the above isn't the point of this emu: when I came to remove the CD, pressing the 'open/close' button on the drive resulted in a sullen refusal to do anything. So, I tried the CD icon in Gnome, to be told that Debian had lost the driver - and the drawer still would not open. (Kept telling me that the drive was 'busy' or similar when I clicketty-clicked its icon in the Desktop. [Do we call it 'desktop'?] )
I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again.
This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works. Regards, Keith ____________ People would rather sleep through life than stay awake for it. - Edward Albee
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:01:00 -0000, "Keith Watson" <keith.watson@kewill.com> said:
From: Anthony Anson Sent: 21 February 2005 10:45
However, the above isn't the point of this emu: when I came to remove the CD, pressing the 'open/close' button on the drive resulted in a sullen refusal to do anything. So, I tried the CD icon in Gnome, to be told that Debian had lost the driver - and the drawer still would not open. (Kept telling me that the drive was 'busy' or similar when I clicketty-clicked its icon in the Desktop. [Do we call it 'desktop'?] )
I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again.
This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works.
Yes, or you may have to: # umount /path/to/cdrom (mount point or device) If you have anything running with the CD-ROM mount point as its working directory (be it Nautilus, KSCD, terminal or whatever) then umount will report that the drive is busy and won't let you unmount it. Cheers, Richard
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I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again.
This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works.
Yes, or you may have to: # umount /path/to/cdrom (mount point or device)
If you have anything running with the CD-ROM mount point as its working directory (be it Nautilus, KSCD, terminal or whatever) then umount will report that the drive is busy and won't let you unmount it.
But I closed down the window, and the failed wake-up call to Wine, so there should have been nothing eyeing lustfully the CD ROMdrive. -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ The only way to tell when a Finn is in love with you is that they look at your feet instead of their own.
Anthony Anson <tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
But I closed down the window, and the failed wake-up call to Wine, so there should have been nothing eyeing lustfully the CD ROMdrive.
I can't remember what your system has running on it, but I've had that problem with bits of Gnome deciding that they really don't want to let go of my cdrom drive, I can't exactly remember how I fixed it though, it might have got fixed in one of the random regular updates that I do ;) You should be able to tell, fairly quickly, what's got hold of it by using fuser in a terminal as root. Handy tool to have laying about that one. Cheers, -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk
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But I closed down the window, and the failed wake-up call to Wine, so there should have been nothing eyeing lustfully the CD ROMdrive.
I can't remember what your system has running on it, but I've had that problem with bits of Gnome deciding that they really don't want to let go of my cdrom drive, I can't exactly remember how I fixed it though, it might have got fixed in one of the random regular updates that I do ;)
You should be able to tell, fairly quickly, what's got hold of it by using fuser in a terminal as root. Handy tool to have laying about that one.
Noted, but not understood... I'll have a look at the O'Reilly CD of the book - though last time I looked, I found I needed instructions to tell me how to use the CD... -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ The only way to tell when a Finn is in love with you is that they look at your feet instead of their own.
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I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again.
This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works.
The words have a familiar ring to them - but I'm not up to speed at using terminals yet, so... -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ The only way to tell when a Finn is in love with you is that they look at your feet instead of their own.
On Monday 21 February 2005 11:01, Keith Watson wrote:
I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again.
This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works.
Check the fstab line for the cdrom and make sure it has "users" in it - This allows any user to unmount the CD. Regards, Paul. -- Pieces of seven, pieces of seven - A parroty error. "To err is human...to really f*** things up requires the root password." From a collection of quotes at http://www.indigo.org/quotes.html
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