Comment 1 for bug 75074

I sympathise with the initial reporter... yes, CD/DVD-drives can give grief to the user in Linux, and I have faced this issue myself (hence marking as confirmed). Ubuntu BTS (and most probably a number of others) contain a few reports against particular programs (like Nautilus) that sometimes prevent the ejection of a disc. Sometimes the command "eject" won't work, but "sudo eject" will, sometimes you have to repeat the "sudo eject" a few times, sometimes start by killing a stray process that was left behind preventing the ejection etc. See also bug #66609.

"I shouldn't have to fight my CD-drive." ;-) Indeed, ejecting media, especially read-only media, shouldn't be as hard as it sometimes seems to be.

But how to tackle this issue, that's the difficult question...