Can't burn DVDs with brasero or xfburn

hank2121

I have nearly same problems with burning and tried to describe it in another post, but maybe we can find a solution in this one.
I tried with Brasero, xfburn, cdroast and tkDVD and with all I get an i/o-error message or something like " the 4,x GB file can t be measured for burning" or something...
I put user in "wheel" & "operator", I gave as much permissions to folders as possible (maybe too much ;-) ) and I tried at least xfburn with sudo rights, but always the same errors on both machines with different DVD drives.
And as it was working till recent updates (at least with xcdroast and xfburn for iso s), and some forums pointed to possible broken packages like cdrecord, is there a point maybe?
The only successful burning was a small amount of data, few hundred MB 0n either CD or DVD.
Tried burning on windows on my dual-boot desktop, that worked well, so drive is ok!?

nevillehay

Just burned a 13gb bluray disk with xfburn without any trouble. I assume a DVD would work as well. I don't know why you're having trouble. I do not have brasero installed. Only xfburn and k3b.

This is what I have in /etc/devfs.conf

link /tmp shm

Allow all users to access optical media

perm /dev/acd0 0666
perm /dev/acd1 0666
perm /dev/cd0 0666
perm /dev/cd1 0666

Allow all USB Devices to be mounted

perm /dev/da0 0666
perm /dev/da1 0666
perm /dev/da2 0666
perm /dev/da3 0666
perm /dev/da4 0666
perm /dev/da5 0666

Misc other devices

perm /dev/pass0 0666
perm /dev/xpt0 0666
perm /dev/uscanner0 0666
perm /dev/video0 0666
perm /dev/tuner0 0666
perm /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 0666
perm /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr 0666
perm /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 0666

and in /etc/devfs.rules

[devfsrules_common=7]
add path 'acd[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'ad[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'ada[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'cd[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'cx23885' mode 666
add path 'cx88' mode 666
add path 'da[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'dri/' mode 666
add path 'drm/' mode 666
add path 'dvb/' mode 666
add path 'fd[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'iicdev' mode 666
add path 'lpt[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'mmcsd[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'pass[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'tuner[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'ugen[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'ulpt[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'unlpt[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'usb/' mode 666
add path 'usbctl' mode 666
add path 'uscan[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'uvisor[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'video[0-9]' mode 666
add path 'xpt[0-9]' mode 666

hank2121

nevillehay thx Neville. I ll try these entries myself and give feedback over the weekend.
But as it worked before, with xfburn & xcdroast, I don t get it, where my permissions might have changed. But I ll let You know, what came out. But bare with me, it won t be before sunday, no time till then.. sigh...

Giskard

nevillehay my /etc/devfs.conf contained only link /tmp shm

I added all the other permission and that fixed my issue. Now brasero starts every time.

I had to reboot, because service devfs restart wasn't enough.

My devfs.conf now looks like this. I decided to use globs, like in devfs.rules

link	/tmp	shm

# Allow all users to access optical media
perm /dev/acd[0-9]* 0666
perm /dev/cd[0-9]* 0666

# Allow all USB Devices to be mounted
perm /dev/da[0-9]* 0666

# Misc other devices
perm /dev/pass[0-9]* 0666
perm /dev/xpt[0-9]* 0666
perm /dev/uscan[0-9]* 0666
perm /dev/video[0-9]* 0666
perm /dev/tuner[0-9]* 0666
perm /dev/dvb/* 0666

nevillehay

Nice! Glad it's fixed

Giskard

nevillehay Yess! Thank you very much 🙂

hank2121

nevillehay Thx Neville, it also fixed mine!! strangely, the /cd0 .... entry in devfs.conf was missing the /dev entry in front of it. maybe that ALSO killed the burning process.
But finally burnt an 4.5GB iso with xfburn, thx a lot!

hank2121

Giskard Thank You as well, Giskard, the * option for adding all possible drives [0-9] may have helped to get along one tiny permission detail, I may have overlooked otherwise.... ;-)

nevillehay

Glad to help out fellow optical disc user 😁

hank2121

nevillehay hehe, yeah I know. Everyone shakes his/her head, when hearing about burning discs... but besides an .iso now and then ( and they work much better for installation or in VMs, when burnt) it s my little "aged" Suzuki SX4, which has no USB port, therefor need CDs for my RadioCaroline mp3s to listen to on way to/from work. :-D

Giskard

hank2121 I still burn DVDs for the things I want to keep. I have a shelf full of those CD/DVD carry cases with many pages inside. 😅
One day I'll buy a NAS, but not today. 😁

nevillehay

hank2121 Nice. I back up data on Blu Ray discs

Robin

Oh, I thought that little thing was a retractable cup holder!
My bad.

hank2121

Robin buuuh, now You made him cry, my "little rice bowl" down there.... :-D
Naka nai de little rice bowl... ;-)

hank2121

Giskard LOL - a NAS You need to power and configure... DVD s just...burn and live for(almost) ever. :-D