Description of problem: When attempting to burn a DVD-R disc, the program called CD/DVD Creator is used. Help->About says the program is called Nautilus, so I'm guessing it's the thing called "nautilus-cd-burner" in the bugzilla component list. When I try to burn a DVD-R, it appears to work until the end of the process when it presents an error message saying it was unable to eject the DVD-R automatically and asking me to manually eject it. After I manually eject it, the dialog completes normally with no other indication of error. In the past, it always ejected by itself. If I then insert the DVD-R again, I'm presented with a folder that shows all the contents correctly. However, if I insert the DVD-R into any other computer the disk is unreadable (tested on a laptop running Fedora 13, a desktop running Fedora 12, and two Window XP/Vista computers). This is a new problem. I have always been able to burn DVD-R discs on this computer before as far back as Fedora 8 and I was able to burn them on Fedora 13 less than two months ago. This is the first time I've tried writing a DVD since then. I'm assuming a recent update broke something. I've tried rebooting the computer. I've verified I can read older DVD and CD disks in this drive. I've gone through a half dozen DVDs trying to fix or debug this and I'm out of ideas. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Unknown. Help->About says only "Nautilus 2.30.1" How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert DVD-R 2. attempt to write a lot of stuff (2GB+) 3. Actual results: 1. auto eject no longer works 2. the F13 which burned the DVD-R falsely shows the DVD-R as being good (which could potentially fool a less cautious user into the deleted their data, thinking it has been backed up successfully!) 3. all other computers are unable to read the DVD-R Expected results: DVD-R is burned correctly and ejected like it used to be Additional info: Using Memorex 16x 4.7GB DVD-R discs (same lot as I've used for the last year with no problems) Computer is a Dell Inspiron 531S desktop with dual core AMD Athlon64 4400+ dmesg shows: ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: ATAPI: PBDS DVD+/-RW DH-16W1S, 2D14, max UDMA/100 ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM PBDS DVD+-RW DH-16W1S 2D14 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
After playing with CD/DVD writing on some other Fedora boxes, I've decided the "F13 which burned the DVD-R falsely showing the DVD-R as being good" maybe be unrelated. It may even be a feature but it seems like a bug to me. Basically what's happening there is if you burn a disc, the CD/DVD Creator seems to "remember" what the disc looked like and next time you insert any disc (the one you created or a new blank one) it brings up the window with the contents of the last disc you burned, giving the impression there's already something on the disc. This seems to happen on several F13 and F12 boxes I tried. Very confusing to the user, especially when the disc burning fails as in my case because it makes it look like it worked until you load the disc on another computer. I think most users would expect the disc burning software to be empty when started rather than showing the contents of an old disc.
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