[NTLUG:Discuss] Any way to unlock a locked device?

[Leroy Tennison]

Found a partial solution to my CD Player quest: Grip, it's apparently an 
old (and probably not maintained) player but it does have a rather 
simple implementation of "play the tracks you want directly from CD" and 
it is installable via SuSE 10.3's Yast (apparently someone else has a 
reason for keeping it around).

It has it's issues, sometimes it stalls on reading the CDROM, it locked 
up on me once so far.  I was able to kill it while in KDE but the lock 
on the CD drive didn't go away.

Tried ejecting as root - no response.
Logged out - no help.
Finally rebooted which worked but reminded me of an OS I would rather 
not remember.

Any ideas?