This would explain it based upon my experience... I also disabled the
automount function which opened a GMC-like window showing the directory
tree of the cdrom. Until I got that part worked out I would just
ctrl-alt-backspace... that seemed to work as well using the xwindow but
was a pain. ;-)
Patrick

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Alan Dayley wrote:

> 
> If you use KDE and you have loaded a file or directory into Konqueror at
> some point, you must close Konqueror.  It keeps a handle on the CD-ROM even
> if you are no longer actively displaying the files on it.  At least this
> was the evident cause of this same symptom on my computer.
> 
> Alan
> 
> At 11:18 AM 9/25/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Okay whenever I try to umount my cdrom drive it tell me devise is busy 
> >(despite the fact that I can't see anything using it). Is there anyway I 
> >can force it to umount anyway or kill whatever is using it (how would I 
> >find that out?). yes I've tried umount - f.
> >
> >Carl P.
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