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.
