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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486960 Title: Brasero disk burner won't get past "Preparing to write." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/486960/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
