Hi,

I just experienced how hard it can be to open a dvd drive...

I have ripped a music cd using K3B and want to open the drive. But KDE tells me one or more processes is accessing the cd file system. Google told me to try fuser to see what processes are using the cd but it says there's not process accessing it. Still, KDE refuses to open my dvd drive. Is there any other way?

Thanks

Try using the "eject" command as root.

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sudo eject /dev/sr0

Thanks, I've got my cd out with this command. But then the drive closed automatically again (its empty now). But now the KDE tells me that it can't mount the drive "LinkinPark" although I have removed this cd. Now the drive is closed and I can't get it open even with the eject command.

Btw, sorry I forgot to mention that I'm running latest Kubuntu with KDE4.5 from the backports ppa.

I have seen a system have issues like this following a problem with burning a disc. If you check "dmesg" there will likely be a variety of messages complaining about hardware access errors, etc.

If you know which kernel module is responsible for your disc drive, try removing it ( using rmmod ) and reloading it ( using modprobe ) to fix the issue. Otherwise, you will need to reboot.

I wonder if this is because you have a desktop search engine running in the background. When Beagle came out a few years ago it caused endless problems with K3b because it set up processes to access every data storage device on the machine. One reason why I got rid of Beagle.