On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:47 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Since 2.6.27 I've had several times, but not always, that after I open the 
> CD tray by pressing the eject button it spontaneously closes after a 
> short delay. The delay varies between ~0 and ~2 seconds.

For the record, I had this on my Gentoo system. It turned out that HAL
was responsible. (So it may not be a kernel bug at all)

Do see this report:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230886

> Cheers,
> FJP

Regards,
Tony V.