Well, I later found out that the CD tray is a defect. And I brought it to
the repairman and fixed it. It was a hardware problem. Sorry about the late
reply because from my busy school.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM, jtraifalgar <email address hidden> wrote:

> navsnipe,
>
> I am interested with the solution how you fixed it. Could you point
> where that thread was? I paste the "all_generic_ide" at the last kerner
> line at the /boot/grub/menu.lst then reboot. Then I tried the cdtray
> closes after I opened it. Martin's solution was good but you have to
> type the command at the console always. Like to see how the menu.lst was
> modified. Thank you very much in advance
>
> --
> CD-ROM tray closes automatically after eject
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283316
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “udev” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in linux in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid
> Status in udev in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released
> Status in “udev” source package in Fedora: In Progress
> Status in Gentoo Linux: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: hal
>
> Ubuntu intrepid ibex beta (updated)
>
> Problem:
> When I try to eject a cd/dvd, Ubuntu intrepid inserts the cdrom right back
> in the cd/dvd drive
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) Either by pressing eject button on the device or using the "eject"
> command or using the eject icon in nautilus sidebar
> 2) The dvd is ejected successfully
> 3) The dvd is loaded back in right after being ejected. This happens after
> the message "eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded" of "eject -v" command.
>
> Note 1: The cd/dvd-rw drive is a SATA device
> Note 2: This happens while in tty and ubuntu gnome desktop manager
>
> $ apt-cache policy eject hal
> eject:
>  Installed: 2.1.5-9ubuntu2
>  Candidate: 2.1.5-9ubuntu2
>  Version table:
>  *** 2.1.5-9ubuntu2 0
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> hal:
>  Installed: 0.5.11-4ubuntu2
>  Candidate: 0.5.11-4ubuntu2
>  Version table:
>  *** 0.5.11-4ubuntu2 0
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> $ eject -v
> eject: using default device `cdrom'
> eject: device name is `cdrom'
> eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
> eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/scd0'
> eject: `/dev/scd0' is mounted at `/media/cdrom0'
> eject: unmounting device `/dev/scd0' from `/media/cdrom0'
> eject: `/dev/scd0' is not a multipartition device
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/scd0' using CD-ROM eject command
> eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded
>
> $ sudo lshw -C disk
> [...]
>  *-cdrom
>       description: DVD-RAM writer
>       product: DVD-RW  DVR-212
>       vendor: PIONEER
>       physical id: 0.0.0
>       bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
>       logical name: /dev/cdrom
>       logical name: /dev/cdrw
>       logical name: /dev/dvd
>       logical name: /dev/dvdrw
>       logical name: /dev/scd0
>       logical name: /dev/sr0
>       logical name: /media/cdrom0
>       version: 1.21
>       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
>       configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660
> mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8 state=mounted status=ready
>     *-medium
>          physical id: 0
>          logical name: /dev/cdrom
>          logical name: /media/cdrom0
>          configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660
> mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8 state=mounted
>