Comment 55 for bug 181703

Hi both dentament and huiii,

Apologies if my comment came off as silly; Ubuntu is by far the friendliest Linux, and it can be frustrating when certain very basic functionalities don't work right off the bat.

Now maybe this information will help in solving this Bug:

On my system, none of GnomeBaker, Nautilus, or xcdroast worked for burning an audio CD. I tried all of them. I also tried each program using KDE as my window manager (to rule out that Gnome might have anything to do with my issue [yes, it would seem absurd that a window manager would affect this, but it was a simple experiment for me to try]). I was also not able to burn from within KDE, trying all of the previously mentioned programs.

However -- after I had failed trying the programs through KDE, I logged into Gnome using the "failsafe" mode. After I did this, Brasero suddenly decided that it _could_ see my blank disc and that the available space on it was more than 0 bytes. I proceeded to burn an audio CD, and that worked correctly.

After the successful burn, I put in another blank CD -- back to square one. Brasero refuses to burn it, claiming it does not have any space.

My conclusion is this -- something is absolutely wrong in the _SOFTWARE_. My media is just fine (been using discs from this spindle for months with no problem, the one time I did burn something it is absolutely fine), and my DVD-RW drive is functioning just fine, too.

Something is wrong at the software level. I'd be happy to try other experiments and/or provide log files from either programs or the kernel messages; someone let me know.