On Ubuntu 18.04.3 I started experiencing the same problem. CD burning worked fine with Brasero in December when I last burned a CD for my car.
I have suddenly had this problem since January, Brasero is hanging at "Starting to Record" I ran the commands from this thread: sudo chmod 4711 /usr/bin/cdrdao sudo chmod 4711 /usr/bin/wodim sudo chmod 0755 /user/bin/growisfs And now it gets a bit further but hangs at "Writing CD-Text Information" I am forced to End Process for Brasero and then the CD appears as no longer blank and I cannot use it again. I have also tried K3b and XFBurn which have the same problem. I have just clean installed this computer to 19.10 and again I have the same problem. Can anyone give me some help? I need to get a bunch of CDs burned urgently by next weekend. I have now wasted a whole bunch of blank CDs and I really do not want to have to change to another OS to fix this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770502 Title: Brasero hangs when burning cds To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/1770502/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs