Comment 40 for bug 149076

Also FWIW, I've been speaking with the maintainer of libburnia and xfburn, and he says libburn and cdrskin are replacements for wodim and cdrecord and are built on a fresh codebase. He wrote: "Cdrskin can replace cdrecord (even for k3b, just make a symlink from cdrecord -> cdrskin) [or really from wodim to cdrskin]. If it isn't a hardware error, it really should work as it's a fresh codebase. You can grab libburn tarball (which includes cdrskin) from http://libburnia-project.org "

I also notice the Ubuntu repos have the older version 0.4.2-1 of libburn and cdrskin.

My method above for replacing wodim with cdrecord seemed to work, but I am still unable to burn. After trying an old installation of feisty that I know used to burn ok, I'm convinced I have a bad drive. Yet for some reason I'm getting the same errors as reported in this bug - the error reporting seems very non-informative.

I'm interested to know anyone's results with libburn. Also, the maintainer said he is willing to help people with any problems.