Can't burn DVD disks

thank you for your bug report, could you run gconf-editor, go to apps, nautilus-cd-burner, enable the debug option there and then run nautilus-cd-burner on a command line and try to burn a DVD and copy the log to the bug?

Here's the output (I tried to write one 1 MB file):
--- start ---
liku@sagittarius:~$ nautilus-cd-burner
launching command: growisofs -dvd-compat -graft-points -path-list /tmp/iso-liku.3L5KIU -Z /dev/scd0 -input-charset utf8 -r -J -V Personal Data, Sep 30, 2008
growisofs stdout: Executing 'genisoimage -graft-points -path-list /tmp/iso-liku.3L5KIU -input-charset utf8 -r -J -V Personal Data, Sep 30, 2008 | builtin_dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0'
growisofs stderr: Total translation table size: 0
growisofs stderr: Total rockridge attributes bytes: 251
growisofs stderr: Total directory bytes: 0
growisofs stderr: Path table size(bytes): 10
growisofs stderr: Max brk space used 0
growisofs stderr: 636 extents written (1 MB)
growisofs stderr: /dev/scd0: "Current Write Speed" is 8.2x1352KBps.
growisofs stderr: :-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=0h/ASC=00h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error
process stdout: HUP
growisofs stderr: :-( write failed: Input/output error
process stderr: HUP
liku@sagittarius:~$
--- end ---

ls -al /dev/scd0:
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2008-09-30 12:00 /dev/scd0

groups:
liku adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin sambashare kvm

does using the indicated command line work correctly? that seems to be a dvd+rw-tools issue or a linux one

Running the command alone results in the same error (there's nothing written on DVD disk).

The drive itself behaves strange - for a minute or two head goes back and forward inside the DVD. Blank DVD disk itself is recognized correctly and it does work on Windows; sometimes it takes some time, probably due to fact that Linux leaves the drive in undefined state which after soft reset, renders the drive unusable (partly).

reassigning to linux that seems to be a driver bug rather

+1 here
I'm not able to burn DVD+-RW with Intrepid
The disk is recognized, but if I try to burn it with K3b, Brasero or Gnomebaker System

CD/DVD:
PHILIPS DVD+-RW SDVD8431 LX51 (/dev/scd0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite]

Uname -a:
Linux sava-box 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Error:
[ 688.598728] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
[ 688.598750] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[ 688.598764] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[ 688.598778] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0

Tried with all_generic_ide option in the grub kernel line, but same error

Hi lukasz-goralczyk,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/)

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 275859

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi there,

im driving a 8.04 ubuntu and had no problems with my dvd burner for some hundreds of discs. But now there is an issue since some weeks, where no burning remains successful. i changed the media to exclude an incompatibility with that but this had no effect.

uname -a
Linux ICEBURNER 2.6.24-26-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 18:37:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

i think its araised with one of the newer kernels, because i have some other pc's with ubuntu 8.04 and one with 9.10. It is not fact that all my hardware is defect, please guide me thru a process of investigating the reasons.

  Ice

Ditto ice.polar.

uname -a
Linux spongebob 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Hardware is fine. Loss of functionality coincided with dist upgrade.

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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