Brasero freezes the whole system when blanking a CDRW.

[turbolad]

Binary package hint: brasero

Tried fully blanking (un-ticked "Fast blanking") a CDRW. Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) seemed to "freeze" - the screen went blank, the mouse was working, but nothing else would happen.

I have reported problems in the past about DVDRW and CDRW type discs not being recognised after being blanked - maybe this problem is related to that?

How do you kill a non-responding program in Linux? I was able to press the <CTRL> <ALT> and <F1> keys and get a command screen, but couldn't kill Brasero as I don't know how to. In the end, I had to hit the reset button on my PC.

Yes, the hardware in my computer is working fine, no problems of any kind.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 21 13:05:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/brasero
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: brasero 2.28.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: brasero
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2495): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2495): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2591): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2611): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, could you attach your dmesg and Xorg.0.log after getting that freeze? thanks.

[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!.

[turbolad (turbolad995)]

I've been told this is similar to another bug: CD/DVD not recognised after being blanked.

As I don't have any more blank discs, I cannot provide you with any more information at the moment.

Please try using Brasero on as many Ubuntu systems as possible, especially 64-bit ones (I'm using 64-bit Ubuntu), hopefully you will find out more.

Cheers.