Does burning CD-RWs in Nautilus work for anyone without tweaking?

[Ari Torhamo]

Hi,

I start to believe that there is something badly wrong with burning
CD-RWs in Nautilus. Has it actually worked for anyone right from the
start without any command line magic? I have installed Warty in three
different machines six times in all and in five of the times burning
didn't work and I just don't know about the sixth one because the person
I installed Ubuntu for hasn't done any burning yet (and I'm afraid of
the moment he's going to).

In one of the installations, the one I'm writing this at, burning
started to work after a week seemingly by itself after I had tried
everything I could without success. In the others no CD-RW would work,
whether it was empty or had files in it. Today I visited my brother who
needed to back up his files and I went to show him how to do it in Gnome
- burning never worked. All I got was an error message "Insert a
rewritable or empty disc" (my translation). When I tried to burn a CD-RW
that was burned earlier in UDF-format (in Windows), I didn't even get an
error message - the burning process just froze. I even went to Windows
and emptied two CD-RWs with Nero, but I couldn't burn on neither of them
in Nautilus.

To my remembering this problem has been reported on this list several
times before and by digging the archives I'd propably find a way to do
the burning. I don't mind some problems - Ubuntu is a work in progress -
but I can't tell my brother or other inexperienced GUI people to start
to do things at the command line because there's a problem in Gnome (or
were ever the problem is). It's out of the question to tell them to open
the terminal and start to mount things everytime they just want to back
up their files. My brother is starting to miss Windows already (It's not
just burning CD-RWs that he has problems with - floppies don't mount,
document names are changed partly unreadable (that non-ASCII-thing,
change to UTF didn't help) and the other day his desktop went crazy
leaving changed settings and displaced files behind, etc. - I'll put
these in separate messages).

For me these problems with burning CD-RWs in Nautilus seem like a
serious bug. Perhaps the problem is more common than developers know.
What about testing this by trying to burn with Nautilus on fresh
installations before installing other burning software or tweaking? Is
it possible to have an update that would fix this, if the problem indeed
is common? Most people that I know use CD-RWs to back up their files and
to my regret for the time being I have to stop recommending Ubuntu for
novice users unless I somehow get certainty of that I have just had very
bad luck and burning CD-RWs in Nautilus works generally well.

Regards,

Ari Torhamo