nautilus-cd-burner cant burn cd-rw

[Christopher Blay]

Binary package hint: nautilus-cd-burner

On a Dell Latitude D820 w/ CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive I can burn isos to a CD-R with no problems but when I try to burn to a CD-RW, nautilus-cd-burner blanks the CD and then ejects it saying:

Reload a rewritable or blank disc

Please replace the disc in the drive with a supported disc with at least 695.8 MiB free. The following disc types are supported:
CD-R, CD-RW

Retrying doesn't change anything and I'm not sure what other hardware info you need (or how to get it) so you'll have to give me some help :)

[Christopher Blay (blayde)]

Some more info:

I can burn to a CD-R only if I haven't tried burning a CD-RW already. If I've tried a CD-RW, the same thing happens when I try a CD-R until I reboot (or probably just restart gdm, I'll get back to you on that).

The Device Manager shows the drive as CDRW/DVD TSL462D and that is uses SCSI for the bus.

I've heard there are problems with cdrtools and SCSI drives and something about 2.6.* kernels - Is this related?

[Luis Medinas (lmedinas)]

Try do a complete cd-rw blank sometimes it's needed to burn them. That might be the problem since you can burn CD-R. Another hint is that you could restart hal by sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart.

[Christopher Blay (blayde)]

I've installed brasero and used it to erase the cd-rw in question. Unfortunately, nautilus continues to give the same error as before. When using brasero to burn, i get an error saying 'The image does not seem to be a proper iso9660 file system.' I've attached the session log. I don't have any cd-r's with me - otherwise I'd try to burn one after restarting hal to see if it works again...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you run gconf-editor, go to applications, nautilus-cd-burner and enable the debug option there, then run nautilus-cd-burner on a command line to burn the image and copy the log to the bug?

[Christopher Blay (blayde)]

Oh I'm so sorry - I forgot I even filed this!

I no longer use/have the laptop in question so I'm afraid I can't get you any info about it now... Also my new laptop works perfectly for all cd/dvd burning (except brazero likes to freak out when i run multiple instances of it) so thanks for that! I suppose if nobody else has had this problem then you can just close this as invalid?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug