When you will not chose CANCEL but RETRY, gedit will open file several times. vmlinuz in my list:
$ lsof /dev/cdrw COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME gedit 29196 oem 16r REG 22,64 10648 1871 /media/cdrom1/isolinux.bin gedit 29196 oem 17r REG 22,64 2048 1863 /media/cdrom1/boot.cat gedit 29196 oem 18r REG 22,64 10648 1871 /media/cdrom1/isolinux.bin gedit 29196 oem 19r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 20r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 21r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 22r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 23r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 24r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 25r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz gedit 29196 oem 26r REG 22,64 1047363 1883 /media/cdrom1/vmlinuz This is bug. -- gedit doesn't close files (and blocks CDROM eject) https://launchpad.net/bugs/82539 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs