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Have been using a Blu-ray burner from Asus on Ubuntu with Imgburn via Wine for many years. Then all of the sudden Imgburn says "No devices detected".

This has happened either because of an update, or because I installed Samba. Not sure which one is to blame.

I can easily read Blu-ray discs. I just can't get any burner app - not K3b either, to detect any Blu-ray burners all of the sudden.

I put the drive in the girlfriend's Windows machine instead, where it works fine. Then bought another drive for myself, which gives me the same problem.

Does anyone have any ideas here? Thanks.

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Since you can't find it with k3b it's likely not a wine issue. Which Ubuntu release/variant are you using? what is the kernel version? – xenoid Nov 23 '17 at 23:18
    
Ubuntu 16.04. I don't think it's a wine issue either. The weird thing is that it reads any disc fine. It even allows me to burn CD and DVD. I just can't burn Blu-ray anymore weirdly. I think it looks a lot like some update came along and changed something. – mr_lou Nov 24 '17 at 5:09
    
lshw -C disk gives me capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram so bd-r and others are missing. I assume that line used to contain "bd-r" and others. If I try burning a Blu-ray ISO with growisofs, it complains that the ISO is too big to fit on a DVD. – mr_lou Nov 24 '17 at 5:18
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Turns out it's a kernel problem. Starting from linux-image-4.4.0-98 there's a problem detecting Blu-ray burners. linux-image-4.4.0-97 works though. Ubuntu devs has been informed, so hopefully it'll be fixed in the next kernel.

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