>>> Does 'eject' work from the command line at all on your system? >> >> Yes and no. >> >> The eject command works great to open and close the drive tray --- until >> I >> insert a disk. When I insert a disk and the drive tray closes, the eject >> command stops working. When I use the drive button to eject the disk, >> the >> eject command thereafter starts working again. >> >> Hence my previous comment that there might be some kind of soft lock >> occuring. > > But TDE does not have any control over the operation of the > system-provided eject command, nor does it have the ability to lock access > to the CD drive. Can you use the eject command with a CD in the drive > from within KDE4 or XFCE? This is very likely a kernel problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/986845 Tim