I'm getting the same problem. Brasero works fine when I import an
existing multisession disc, but when I try to create a new disc, it
hangs on that dialog box as described above.
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Brasero hangs at Get Size process on 64bit Ubuntu 9.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482991
You received this bug
CORRECTION: Brasero worked fine from the day that Karmic was released
until yesterday (2009-11-16, Melbourne time); today it is failing with
the above bug on ALL burns. I do a daily update through the Update
Manager.
(Previous to Karmic I used k3b because I couldn't figure out how to get
Brasero