I am also seeing this problem. Responding to the request for debugging information from Sebastien, here is some data I hope will help.
There are two processes running: ps auxw|grep burn ota 21399 0.7 1.4 8856 7248 ? S 17:28 0:00 /usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/mapping-daemon ota 22787 3.1 2.5 37552 13016 ? S 17:30 0:00 /usr/bin/nautilus-cd-burner As you can see they are using a trickle of CPU, but hardly looping. I have the gdb backtrace information for both of these processes attached. I added these packages: nautilus-cd-burner-dbgsym (2.16.1-0ubuntu1) libnautilus-burn4-dbgsym (2.16.1-0ubuntu1) My system information is this: [~]% nautilus-cd-burner --version Gnome nautilus-cd-burner 2.16.1 [~]% lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 6.10 Release: 6.10 Codename: edgy [~]% uname -a Linux alohomora 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux HtH, Ted Anderson ** Attachment added: "gdb backtrace" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5561058/gdb-nautilus-cd-burner.txt -- GNOME CD burner hangs on "Write to Disc" dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/69411 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs