Ejecting CDs are Frustrating

[Lukas Sabota]

Lukas Sabota wrote:

> Lukas Sabota wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>> Ejecting CDs, especially Audio CDs, in Ubuntu can be quite 
>> frustrating.  Often times when I would like to eject a CD from my 
>> desktop, I get a descriptive error that says: "Unable to eject media" 
>> and "Show more details".  Alright, I would like to find out more 
>> details of the problem.  My details are "eject: unable to eject, last 
>> error: Invalid Argument".  Hmm, not quite the details I was looking 
>> for.  That doesn't help me solve my problem at all.
>> So my next step is to umount the drive through the command line.
>> lukas at gnarley:/$  cd /media/
>> lukas at gnarley:/media$  umount cdrom0/
>> umount: /media/cdrom0 is not mounted (according to mtab)
>> What? My CD is mounted! I see it on the desktop
>> lukas at gnarley:/media$  cd cdrom0
>> lukas at gnarley:/media/cdrom0$ ls
>> Nothing?  Odd, where are my audio tracks?
>>
>> Alright, why don't I try to eject from the command line?
>>
>> lukas at gnarley:~$ eject
>> eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
>>
>> Hmm, that desciptive error message is showing up again.  Odd.
>>
>> So it looks like we have two problems here:
>> The first and less severe is that audio tracks are not mounted to the 
>> file system, there are just visible in nautilous.  Quite odd.  I 
>> believe there is a kernel patch or something that allows the mounting 
>> of audio CDs, am I right?
>> The second is that the CD will not eject unless you use a pin or 
>> restart the machine. Even if there is some error with the CD media, 
>> there is no reason for my computer to keep the CD in the trey.  That 
>> is quite obtrusive.  And even if Ubuntu has a good reason for keeping 
>> my CD in the drive, I have no idea what that is.  "eject: unable to 
>> eject, last error: Invalid argument" gives me no insight whatsoever.
>>
>> I do believe this is a software problem and not a hardware problem, 
>> as this has happened through many CD drives.
>>
>> Luke
>>
> There is also one other alternative to ejecting the cd:
> lukas at gnarley:/dev$ sudo eject -s
> Password:
> eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
> lukas at gnarley:/dev$
>
> This ejects the CD, but still prints the error message.  One shouldn't 
> require root privileges to eject a CD.
>
> What's the deal with that?
>
> Luke
>
Edit: $ sudo eject  seems to produce the same output and result $ sudo 
eject -s