brasero multisession option doesnt work

Bug #505207 reported by mobius
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
brasero (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Karmic by tom

Bug Description

Binary package hint: brasero

i wanted to created a multisession data dvd with brasero. selected "Leave the disk open to add files later." next time when i want to add files to this disk it says "Appending new files to a multisession disc is not advised." "Already burnt files will be invisible (though still readable).Do you want to continue anyway?"
i clicked on continue. it checks and gives "Error while burning." "An unknown error occured."
i couldnt add any files to 3 of my multisession dvds !!!!!

i am using Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009.
Brasero 2.28.2.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 9 23:03:13 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/brasero
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: brasero 2.28.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: brasero
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

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mobius (silent-mobius) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your report, could you get a brasero log? please run brasero as: brasero --brasero-burn-debug --brasero-media-debug &> brasero-debug.txt ; perform the operation to reproduce the bug and attach that resulting log file to the report, thanks.

Changed in brasero (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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tom (tomerbd1) wrote :

importance for this bug is low? multisession is a very basic feature... How will i do now my incremental backups?!

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Arthur Hartwig (a-hartwig) wrote :
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I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 (x86_64) and have not been able to burn multi-sessions CDs using Brasero 3.20.

Thinking it might be a characteristic of the CD/DVD drive which is connected via an IDE port I connected a Samsung USB CD/DVD drive and tried with it. I loaded a blank CD into it and then started Brasero and selected directory to write and the blank CD and clicked Burn. The next window that popped up was labelled "Properties of TSSTCorp CDDVDW ... " and offered a selection of Burning Speed, Options and Temporary Files. Unfortunately the Options section was entirely blank so there was no way to specify I wanted to burn a multi-session disc.

I clinked Cancel, manually ejected the CD, loaded a multi-session CD I had burned on a Windows system, waited for the window displaying the CD contents to appear, went back into Brasero and selected this CD (403MB free) as the burn destination and clicked the Burn button and this time in the Options section of the pop-up window there were three options where previously there were none. I canceled the burn and exited Brasero.

I'm happy to attempt other ways of writing multi-session CDs on Ubuntu but its looking as if I will have to keep up the Windows system to get multi-session CD write capability :

1. Brasero doesn't write multi-session CDs.
2. xcdroast is still broken (and was reported broken a number of releases ago)
3. MyBashBurn is pretty cryptic and selecting the Help option reports "File not found"
4. There seems limited capability in Ubuntu to report CD details (e.g. if CD is multi-session and "open") so I reverted to taking written CDs to a Windows system where BurnAware (free software) and provide lots CD details including number of sessions and whether CD is still open for further writing.

Here is the brasero-debug log from the interaction described above -I'll happily provide further information if requested :

$ cat brasero-debug.txt
BraseroBurn: (at burn-basics.c:229) Initializing Brasero-burn 3.2.0
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-media.c:533) Initializing Brasero-media 3.2.0
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-medium-monitor.c:654) Probing drives and media
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-medium-monitor.c:659) Found 3 drives
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-medium-monitor.c:375) Testing drive /dev/sr1
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:181) Getting handle
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:200) Handle ready
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-medium-monitor.c:384) Drive is optical
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-drive.c:1456) Initializing drive /dev/sr1 from device
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-drive.c:1111) Setting GDrive 0x11a8410
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-drive.c:1042) Still initializing the drive properties
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-drive.c:1327) Trying to open device /dev/sr1
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:181) Getting handle
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-medium-monitor.c:375) Testing drive /dev/sda
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:181) Getting handle
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:184) No handle: Permission denied
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-medium-monitor.c:375) Testing drive /dev/sr0
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:181) Getting handle
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:200) Handle ready
BraseroMedia: (at scsi-sg.c:200) Handle ready
BraseroMedia: (at brasero-drive.c:135...

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dinar qurbanov (qdinar) wrote :

brasero in ubuntu 12.04 does not see dvd disk as writable. but it should, i made it multisession disk. maybe i wrote it with brasero and it did not made it proper multisession dvd, probably i used brasero, but maybe i have written it with program that in lubuntu, or with other program, in windows. or brasero do not read it properly now.

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dinar qurbanov (qdinar) wrote :

or maybe indeed have forgotten to leave it open.

i have successfully written multisession dvd with brasero. that was dvd-r, this, to that i cannot add files, is dvd+r.

also people say about this problem in http://askubuntu.com/questions/28044/why-is-it-not-possible-to-burn-a-multisession-dvd-using-brasero .

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