Comment 5 for bug 194609

I'll file a bug as soon as I figure out the exact component. It is definetly gnome though.
1) acpi-support daemon is catching the acpi event and running the eject.bn which does acpi_fakekey
2) when I try to run acpi_fakekey (with the eject key parm) as root .. gnome does nothing
3) acpi_fakekey isn't broken because running "acpi_fakey 2" puts a "1" in my terminal terminal window (this is equivalent of pressing the 1 key on the keyboard).

Anyone with a laptop or is using acpi events that then use acpi_fakekey are going to see this. Now it's a matter of what in Gnome regressed to cause it not to pick up certain special keys.