Ejecting CD which has an open nautilus window

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Daniel Taylor wrote:
> My hoary box freezes any time i use the eject option no matter whats
> open, i started using "eject -r" from the terminal to do the job.

This is a known [1]bug in the inotify driver included in the kernel. The fix
is still underway, but as a workaround you can add the 'noinotify' boot
option to the kernel.

If you don't know how to change boot options, look at [2]this docuemnt.

[1] http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5431
[2] http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GrubHowto

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