Description of problem: I used nautilus to browse a CD and used a shell command to copy a file from the CD. I could not unmount the CD, even after exiting nautilus. I eventually figured out with lsof that fam is using it. I did some web searching and found out this has been a known problem for a long time. Furthermore, unmounting removable media has been a general problem for years. Hasn't it occurred to anybody that something ought to be done about it? This is a huge waste of time for everybody.
gamin obsoletes fam in Fedora Core 3, and should fix that problem, upgrade to gamin-0.0.9 http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ Daniel