On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Nick Stepa <hired777@xxxxxxxxx> 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.