After convincing myself that hulu will entertain me better, I decided to eject the dvd(It was making crazy amount of noise!). Pressing eject/right click->eject did not work.. linux kept ignoring me and continued to struggle with the drive.
Hmmm... I hate when these things happen and gives people the excuse to say "Oh! Linux? its not ready for desktop users.. try mac(pussies - NOTE: I'm not a sexist)". Okay, back to my conjecture...
I speculated, what if some process was using the dvd rom(must be my file manager-dolphin); what if I killed it? would eject succeed?
so pulled down my yakuake terminal and typed in the following hoping it would work.
ps -ef | grep sr0
Shows up hal-daemon and some other shit.. killed 'em all. Still eject button won't work! After googling around someone who suffered as much as I had suggested firing a bunch of eject commands quickly and seems that did the trick.
Closing my eyes, praying one final time hoping I don't have to reboot to take out the damn dvd.. I typed in the following
for i in `seq 1 20`; do sudo eject -v /dev/sr0 & done
and pressed Enter.....
A slew of outputs flew across the screen and finally success! dvdrom ejected.. I wish there was an option to just say 'shut the fuck up and get the dvd out'. Unfortunately no.
