GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 484535
Sound-juicer don't unlock drive on exit : brasero fails to burn
Last modified: 2007-10-08 18:04:46 UTC
sound-juicer lock drive at startup via hal , but it only unlock it when ejecting the drive, and so when you exit normally, the drive is still locked. A consequence is that applications that respect this lock, like brasero, refuse to go ahead. Step to reproduce : - Start sound-juicer (even if you don't have a CD on your drive) - Exit it normaly. - Insert a blank CD in your drive - Normaly you should have a dialog that ask you if you want to burn an audio CD or a data CD, but here you have nothing : the drive is locked (you can also check that with hal-device-manager). - Start brasero or burn:/// and try to burn something : it will fail. Serpentine will work, but it's only because it don't respect the lock state. Original report : https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-juicer/+bug/131475
This is strictly speaking a HAL bug, it should unlock the device if the application quits. For example if SJ crashed, the drive would remain locked. That said, I've fixed this in svn.