From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.23 [en] Description of problem: uname: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.9-e.3smp #1 SMP Fri May 3 16: 48:54 EDT 2002 i686 unknown Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Pensacola) Unable to eject a CDROM which is attached to /dev/hda, there are no other CDROM opperation troubles. The drive can mounted and unmounted, there are no physical performance problems. Output included below. I have been able to replicate this on machines with the same hardware. (SUN Cobalt LX50). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eject-2.0.9-2 and eject-2.0.12-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. simply running eject -v Actual Results: eject -v eject: using default device `cdrom' eject: device name is `cdrom' eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom' eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hda' eject: `/dev/hda' is mounted at `/mnt/cdrom' eject: unmounting `/dev/hda' eject: `/dev/hda' is a multipartition device eject: trying to eject `/dev/hda' using CD-ROM eject command eject: CD-ROM eject command failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/hda' using SCSI commands eject: SCSI eject failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/hda' using floppy eject command eject: floppy eject command failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/hda' using tape offline command eject: tape offline command failed eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Expected Results: No output, simply the cdrom doesn't eject. This is causing problems for applications which need to switch CD's (VMWare in my case) Additional info: Strace last outputs: open("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 3 ioctl(3, 0x5309, 0xbffecae8) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy) ioctl(3, 0x1, 0xbffec990) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ioctl(3, 0x25a, 0xbffecae8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ioctl(3, 0x40086d01, 0xbffecaa0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/eject.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/eject.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "eject: unable to eject, last err"..., 53eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument ) = 53 _exit(1) = ?
it looks like your device is still busy and used from other process. is your device still mounted after doing eject? >Expected Results: No output, simply the cdrom doesn't eject. This >is causing problems for applications which need to switch CD's >(VMWare in my case) what do you mean here?
Drive is not mounted: [root@localhost root]# mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda3 on /usr type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/md0 on /raid0 type ext3 (rw) If I eject a mounted CDROM then the drive gets unmounted, however it is not physically ejected. This causes a problem for my VMWare application because it is unable to eject the physical CDROM drive so I am unable to perform the OS installation. However it causes problems for any applications which require the ability to eject the cd drive.
it looks like that your CDROM drive does not have the ability to eject.