Comment 92 for bug 228624

Did somebody of you have tested to burn cd/dvd on console, disabling hal before? I had similar problems and worked around it with disabling hal.

You have to prepare an isoimage (via your frontend tool of choice, gbaker, brasero, k3b) or use existing image if available for above steps.

1. Switch to Console via ctrl+alt+F1
2. Kill X
 $ /etc/init.d/gdm stop (replace with kdm for kde users)
3. Kill hald
 $ /etc/init.d/hal(d) stop
4.1 Burn CD (for those having issue with CD)
 $ cdrecord isoimage.iso
4.2 Burn DVD (for those having issue with DVD)
 $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=isoimage.iso (replace sr0 with your dvddrive)