DVD does not eject

DVD does not eject

This worked for me.  I had the same problem:  a DVD that was inserted by my teenager (who knows how to insert a DVD) would not read and also not eject the normal way.  I found that I had to completely shut down (after I had logged out of my user id) and restart while holding down the eject key the whole time.  Just holding down the roller ball on the mouse while I did a restart did not do it.

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