On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 20:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > Theres a bugzilla already open on this iirc. > I think hal was leaking filedescriptors on the cdrom, so it > was still 'in use'. > > davidz, sound familiar ? > Only if the disc didn't contain a filesystem, e.g. audio or blank disc. I couldn't reproduce this myself, however the fix is actually in these packages http://people.redhat.com/davidz/cvs20050103/ Jeff, does this work; if not what are the contents of ls -l /proc/`pidof hald`/fd Cheers, David