Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142782
eject failes to eject certain cds
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; da-DK; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041212 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When ripping my cd collection I came across a problem where eject would refuse to eject a certain CD, namely Metallica's St. Anger album. eject -v gives: eject: using default device `cdrom' eject: device name is `cdrom' eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom' eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc' eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using CD-ROM eject command eject: CD-ROM eject command failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands eject: SCSI eject failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using floppy eject command eject: floppy eject command failed eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using tape offline command eject: tape offline command failed eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eject-2.0.13-13 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rip cd 2. eject Actual Results: eject error message above Expected Results: succesful eject Additional info: running on a 14-12-04 Development system
it seems that happens on every cd marked "Enhanced CD", which I take means that it's a mixed mode cd. So far: Slipknot "Vol 3: The subliminal verses" and Alanis Morissette "Under Rug swept" also displayed this behavior. Requiring a reboot to eject the CD isn't exactly optimal.
if you press the eject button on your cdrom, does it work?
No the drive is locked as if mounted.
can you umount your cdrom? if umount does not work, i assume that some running process still opens the cdrom devices in this case. Please try to kill all this process
Well the trick is that it isn't mounted, and trying to mount it gives this: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/hdc I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems Trying vfat mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/hdc I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems Trying vfat mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock killing gnome-volume-manager (which I assume is to blame for mounting such things) yields no improvement.
This is still an issue as of 01-01-05, and a quite annoying one at that. This bug isn't solely a Fedora problem btw. so there might be extra input to be had on the issue. https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5049
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144913 ***