[arch-general] Brasero Wont Copy Disks
I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user 'carlos' to the 'optical' group. However when I try and copy a disk on my machine, I get an immediate error that says it fails. Then when I save the log, it's blank. It has no details as to why the copy failed. Anyone know what I can do to resolve this and allow my machine to burn / copy disks? I know my optical drive is running fine because I booted from Ubuntu Live CD and was able to copy a disk fine. Thanks for any help!
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com> wrote:
I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user 'carlos' to the 'optical' group.
Now, it may seem redundant asking, but have you logged out and back in after adding yourself to the optical group?
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote:
I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user 'carlos' to the 'optical' group. However when I try and copy a disk on my machine, I get an immediate error that says it fails.
Have you try to write disks using console utilites, like 'growisofs'?
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Nick Stepa <hired777@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote:
I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user 'carlos' to the 'optical' group. However when I try and copy a disk on my machine, I get an immediate error that says it fails.
Have you try to write disks using console utilites, like 'growisofs'?
You also might want to check dmesg for any output - i personally have not have great success with brasero and my lite-on burner, but ymmv. I switched to gnomebaker/xfburn and everything worked fine.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Burlynn Corlew Jr <burlynn@gmail.com> wrote:
I switched to gnomebaker/xfburn and everything worked fine.
Ahhh...GnomeBaker is only in AUR...that stinks :(
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 16:11 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote:
I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user 'carlos' to the 'optical' group. However when I try and copy a disk on my machine, I get an immediate error that says it fails. Then when I save the log, it's blank. It has no details as to why the copy failed. Anyone know what I can do to resolve this and allow my machine to burn / copy disks? I know my optical drive is running fine because I booted from Ubuntu Live CD and was able to copy a disk fine.
Thanks for any help!
You don't need to add yourself to the optical group. You need to have polkit permissions for this. I don't know if brasero wants to elevate to root permissions or if local console login registered with consolekit is enough, but your error looks like you don't have a polkit authorization agent installed. Try to install polkit-gnome and restart brasero, it should come up with an authorization dialog.
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Burlynn Corlew Jr
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Carlos Mennens
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Gary Wright
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Jan de Groot
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Nick Stepa