can't eject cd-roms :(

[anton]

Hello,

I've messed up something with auto mounter (after kernel recompiling), so now most of the times I can't eject cd-roms , when I do "umount cdrom" it says "device is busy" ... it's really driving me mad :mad: ... can anybody help, pls ?

[Cuthbert]

IF you're using X, make sure that you're not viewing the contents of the cd with a file manager while trying to unmount the cdrom. That will give you a 'device busy'.

[Craig McPherson]

You can't unmount a filesystem if any process are in that filesystem or if any files on that filesystem are currently open. If you have a shell in /cdrom, you won't be able to mount it. If you use some sort of graphical "file manager", having it open to your cdrom mount point would also prevent it from being unmounted.

[anton]

yes, I checked everything ... nothing was using it :(

[Cuthbert]

Are you root when you're trying to unmount?

[anton]

yes ...

[Dark Ninja]

What distro/version are you using?


Dark Ninja

[anton]

Mandrake 8.0

[Malakin]

You recompiled with the same kernel source that came with mandrake 8.0 right?

Automount isn't in standard kernel and it doesn't work in the kernel source that comes with 8.1, even though it's listed as a feature I'm not aware of it working for anyone. (put a cd in, "cd /mnt/cdrom" and it should work)

[anton]

no, I was trying to compile 2.4.10 (or something) , but was unsuccesseful ...

(put cd in, cd "/mnt/cdrom") worked perfectly for me before ..