[Bug 541019] [NEW] [CRITICAL] Brasero silently loses directories

[Noel J. Bergman]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: brasero

I can reproduce this with brasero on both Lucid and Karmic.  I add a
directory tree to brasero, and when it finishes adding, there are files
silently discarded.  The lost directory is:

  converted-to-tar/DRIVE-I\ \(WORK\)/NJB/DEVTECH/2BPORTED/YACL/

which contains files and a subdirectory.  A weird thing is that I have a
second, parallel, directory tree:

  recovered-drives/DRIVE-I\ \(WORK\)/NJB/DEVTECH/2BPORTED/YACL/

which appears completely when I drag both to brasero.  The primary
difference is that the latter directory contains everything, and the
former (failing) tree contains the same tree structure, but only tar
files converted from older archive formats found in the source tree.

brasero on Karmic works a bit differently than on Lucid.  On Karmic,
I'll be asked if I want to add the directory, because it is so far down
in the tree, and that question will be repeated.  On Lucid, I am asked
just one.  On Karmic, if I had *just* that one tree, it actually works,
but if I add that tree along with its peers, it silently fails.  On
Lucid, it fails in all cases.

FWIW, I prefer Karmic's handling, where it offered NEVER, NOT THIS ONE,
JUST THIS ONE, and ALWAYS, rather than NO and ALWAYS.  I agree that if I
want the option at all, I'm inclined to chose ALWAYS, but at least
having the options was better than now.

Even if I manually repair the project by dragging the missing directory
into its place in brasero, brasero will silently drop the contents when
burning!

ALL FAILURES ARE SILENT.  The image contains over 33,000 files and over
1200 directories.  Were it not for the fact that I always store an
md5sum.txt file in the root of the image, and always verify the burn
with it, I would likely not have noticed the missing files until after
the data might have been permanently lost.  I CONSIDER THIS CRUCIAL TO
RESOLVE ASAP!  Silent data loss is unacceptable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 18 11:02:31 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: brasero 2.29.91-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: brasero
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

** Affects: brasero (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid

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[CRITICAL] Brasero silently loses directories
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