Tried to burn an ISO image in Feisty… although the CD-ROM drive is detected and it recognizes when I put a CD in, it won’t run. It shows a message like the following:

Please insert a rewritable or blank CD.

I hit the forums and found this very relevant discussion.[/url] Apparently the forums hit the forums… because their solution pointed to [url=http://www.xcdroast.org]www.xcdroast.org, who had this to say:

Linux Kernel 2.6.8 broke CD-Writing:
I had several reports that the last 2.6.x kernel broke CD-Writing using the ATAPI driver. Don’t update if you want to continue to use X-CD-Roast, or switch back to SCSI-emulation.
Update: When started from a root shell burning still works, but non-root mode is disabled by this kernel.

So the solution is to run the programs as root. I was able to burn my cd using:

root@Tiki:~# cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw1 driveropts=burnfree -v -data /home/kato/Desktop/tmp/ubuntu-6.06.1-server-i386.iso

Looks like others used sudo k3d with comparable success.

I didn’t bother trying to figure out which program the “Write to Disk” command traces back to. But it looks like K3d already has a fix. Maybe Ubuntu will provide a fix soon, too…