On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:40:25PM -0700, Zanterian wrote:

Hello fellow arch enthusiasts,

I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare.

I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster, and nothing would get written. Then it would give me a log saying

could not find burn:// directory

After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd

Finding that strange, I did the command

dmesg | grep ide

with this as the result [ 5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

So this is where I made the sloppy solution: I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks.

So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug? I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with my fingers crossed. My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing] repositories.

Thanks, - Eric

You should look into the setup for Brasero and see if you can change the device. I stopped using it quite a while ago and use a command from a terminal. T.