Impossible to open a session file

[Nikolaus Filus]

Binary package hint: brasero

This is similar to #321899 and the two referenced upstream bugs. Feel free to re-assign if necessary.

After upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 with brasero 2.28.2 burning of iso images was not possible. Clicking "Burn" simply does nothing and fails silently. It offers to save a log, which cannot be saved! Starting brasero from shell reveals the error message:
      ** (brasero:10307): WARNING **: Impossible to open a session file
Problem could be solved by selecting a different location for "Temporary files".

Bugs:
1. Preset location was "/media/New Volume" which does not exist and /media is not writeable by normal user.
2. brasero fails without a message to the user (in GUI)
3. Description "Temporary files" is misleading: I want to burn an image where the option "Burn selected image directly without saving to disc" is explicitly preset and read-only!
4. If this is for session log, use $XDG_CACHE_HOME or similar automatically

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 16 17:53:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: brasero 2.28.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: brasero
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

Hi, thanks for caring for the bug.
1. yes, absolutely.
2.
 a) set in gconf /apps/brasero/drives/tmpdir to a non-existant or non-writeable directory
 b) try to burn an iso image
 c) failure

- there is also another key, I'm not sure about: /apps/brasero/display/iso_folder = /media/non-existant
- I never used "/media/New Volume" as a starting directory, so it seems a default value.
- after deleting the whole brasero conf, it still presets the tmpdir to /media

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of brasero is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.