I have experienced similar problems, and I think they are caused by previously mounted optical disks. In the past I used to insert DVDs and expect them to be mounted (which worked fine) and ejected them by pushing the EJECT button on the drive, expecting them to be unmounted (they are not writable, so why not). The latter does not seem to work on my present system (Ubuntu 11.11). When I manually eject a video disk Nautilus (or "mount") still show it as mounted.
Worse, when I then insert a raw disk it is still displayed as the previously ejected disk in Nautilus, while brasero displays it as an empty disk. The latter only works while the "target" selection box has the focus; it disappears as soon as I click on anything else. I suppose that could be a problem of GTK, a system I never managed to understand. I downloaded the current source package of brasero and noticed that the main if-cascade in brasero-project.c (brasero_project_is_valid) has no "else" branch, so some unexpected situation might get lost there. On the other hand when I try to reproduce the situation I get the (german) equivalent of "Please replace the disc with a supported CD or DVD". So obviously brasero or, much more likely, Ubuntu thinks there's still the old DVD in the drive. I think it's this inconsistency that causes this kind of problems. I dont't know why Nautilus and Brasero still think the old DVD hasn't been unmounted, while brasero happily goes on trying to burn the empty disc -- and fails. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brasero in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486960 Title: Brasero disk burner won't get past "Preparing to write." Status in “brasero” package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: brasero I recently updated Ubuntu and now when I try to burn CDs using Brasero the process gets stuck at the first stage, "Preparing to write." I left it there for a couple hours and it never moved on. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 Brasero 2.28.2 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Nov 22 22:35:08 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/brasero Package: brasero 2.28.2-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: brasero Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/486960/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
