Brasero crashes on any video project

[Tim Tierney]

Binary package hint: brasero

All video projects fail to burn because brasero crashes.

to reproduce:
1. open brasero and select a video project.
2. add a video file
3. press burn (to a .cue file in case this bug is not apparent on your system so that no disk will be wasted)
4 brasero crashes

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: brasero 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 23 16:04:31 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: brasero

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

does it crashes or not? if it shows an error that's not a crash.

[Tim Tierney (timtierney)]

Hey Pedro. Thanks for the response.

Yes the disc ejects, it displays the error, and the program crashes. Sorry, I should have been more complete.

[BSA (b-s-a)]

I have same problem (I try write mpeg2 video files using video disk project) in Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick). After clicking on "burn..." button brasero silently closes and no any message about "Internal error".

I run it from terminal:
$ brasero

** (brasero:9200): WARNING **: ERROR loading background pix : Failed to open «/usr/share/brasero/logo.png»: No such file or directory

(brasero:9200): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_builder_end: assertion `is_valid_builder (builder)' failed
(brasero:9200): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type: assertion `value != NULL' failed
(brasero:9200): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_array: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed
(brasero:9200): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed

GLib-ERROR **: g_variant_new: expected array GVariantBuilder but the built value has type `(null)'
aborting...

[Rohit R (rr0hit)]

I could reproduce the bug. No error messages. When run from terminal,

(brasero:2902): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_builder_end: assertion `is_valid_builder (builder)' failed

(brasero:2902): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(brasero:2902): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_array: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed

(brasero:2902): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed

GLib-ERROR **: g_variant_new: expected array GVariantBuilder but the built value has type `(null)'
aborting...
Aborted

[Steven Ketelsen (podfish)]

Confirm same amd64 running on core2duo.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

I am seeing the same thing on maverick, no error message. Attaching a backtrace.

[Krishnandu Sarkar (krishnandu-sarkar)]

I face this problem too.
Here's my bug report - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/670408

It crashes for both burning CD/DVD's or creating .cue image, both for Video CD and DVD.

[Miguel Rozsas (marozsas)]

please, see the related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/665166
Installed cdrdao fix this specific issue for me.

[Erik Weatherwax (erikjwaxx)]

I encountered the same crash even after installing the cdrdao package. Running Maverick amd64.

[Serrano Pereira (serrano-pereira)]

Installing the "cdrdao" package does not fix this problem on Maverick 32bit either.

[raid517 (raid517-ukonline)]

Same problem here. 32 Bit Ubuntu. Even after installing all missing codecs and plugins - or at least those I could find in the repositories. Even then there are some plugins/paths that brasero is saying it can't find.

[Sébastien Bertrand (damocles)]

64bits Maverick : This bug affects me too, installing cdrdao solves the problem…

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

I'm on 64-bit Maverick and when I run Brasero in terminal and try to burn a video project I get:

alex@alex-desktop:~$ brasero

** (brasero:2504): WARNING **: ERROR loading background pix : Failed to open file '/usr/share/brasero/logo.png': No such file or directory

(brasero:2504): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_builder_end: assertion `is_valid_builder (builder)' failed

(brasero:2504): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(brasero:2504): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_array: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed

(brasero:2504): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed

GLib-ERROR **: g_variant_new: expected array GVariantBuilder but the built value has type `(null)'
aborting...
Aborted

[Mathieu Simon (mathieu-simon)]

I had the exact same bug when copying CD-to-CD I've "applied" the cdrdao fix - by installing the package. Debian's package doesn't depend on it as well. Interesting behaviour ...

[lrkwz (luca-orlandi)]

Same error burning CD or creating an image

~$ uname -a
Linux Precision-M4500 2.6.35-24-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 03:21:31 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
~$ brasero

** (brasero:3146): WARNING **: ERROR loading background pix : Failed to open file '/usr/share/brasero/logo.png': No such file or directory

(brasero:3146): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_builder_end: assertion `is_valid_builder (builder)' failed

(brasero:3146): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(brasero:3146): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_array: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed

(brasero:3146): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed

GLib-ERROR **: g_variant_new: expected array GVariantBuilder but the built value has type `(null)'
aborting...
Aborted

[alex_-2 (none-mailinator)]

"does it crashes or not? if it shows an error that's not a crash."

Dude take your RTFM attitude from 2003 and shove it up your fucking ass. You're lucky people are using your shit program. Unfortunately, for us programmers, that's how it is. Users are a blessing. Not the other way around. Get out of software.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

@alex: I would like to point you toward the Ubuntu code of conduct: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

Also Pedro is 100% percent correct the error message coming up is not a crash just the program not functioning correctly, It is important to figure out exactly what is happening to properly triage a bug. It appears the original bug reporter was getting an error message on lucid, and everyone else here is getting a crash on maverick, my original thinking was that it was the same bug with slightly different behavior since we were using different versions, but looking back I think the original reporter was having a completely separate bug from everyone else. If they fix this upstream we can find out for sure.

[balmy_fool (balmy-fool)]

I also had crashes in Maverick when I attempted to copy CDs. Installing cdrdao fixed the problem.

[Shawn W. (werzy33)]

I had crash with Brasero, when attempting to copy a CD, and found the error message by starting Brasero from a terminal:

GLib-ERROR **: g_variant_new: expected array GVariantBuilder but the built value has type `(null)'

As suggested, I installed "cdrdao" with Synaptic (default repositories), the issue was then resolved.

My system: Ubuntu 10.10, AMD Phenom X4 9750 Quad Core.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

The latest update up brasero uploaded today should fix this problem for many of us, If anyone has problems still persisting then please file a new bug.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

the duplicate mechanism seems to be temporarily broken so just marking as fixed released.