wodim burns disk, ejects it, keeps on trying and eventually claims that it failed

[LaMont Jones]

when I have wodim burn a disk (like say, the desktop CD), it finishes the burn, then says it's ejecting it.
This provably works, since the tray opens and I remove the disk and label it...
wodim continues to claim to be trying to eject the disk. And in fact, closing the tray at that point just results in it opening again.

Eventually I get a "hey, that didn't work. you'll need to eject it manually" error message. at that point, it quits opening the drive every time I close it.