Bug 170703

Summary:	open file dialog cause exception: device is not ready
Product:	[Applications] kfile	Reporter:	Kalemas <kalemas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDE-Windows <kde-windows>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	crash	CC:	andresbajotierra, evilagram, kraplax
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Kalemas 2008-09-08 21:47:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                MS Windows
Installed from:    MS Windows

native and kde open file dialog in every kde application causes such error. i can cancel, retry and procced, if i choose procced i can select file

Comment 1 Eduard Sukharev 2008-09-27 16:16:25 UTC

I can confirm that - this happens since 4.0.65 (if i'm not mistaken).
This will happen if you have any removable media (except CD/DVD drives) that is not in it's place. For example, if you have multicardreader - most probably that it's empty or only 1 or 2 cards are plugged into it simultaneously. So, if you "Safely remove" the device the error won't appear any more.
Having 4 slots for memory cards leads to 4 such errors in a row, which almost always causes a crash of an application.

Comment 2 evilagram 2009-02-12 16:16:22 UTC

Ah, I've been having this problem as well. Thanks a ton for the solution. I don't have any removable drives like that, but I run virtual hard drives off iso files and with trucrypt. Could that cause this error too? I'm going to try shutting all of those down and see if it works when I get a chance to.

Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-05-20 21:39:27 UTC

Any news about this with a current KDE4 version ? Thanks

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2009-08-12 16:23:37 UTC

This is probably related to bug 184449.

Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-09-07 14:46:13 UTC

Closing for lack of feedback. Please feel free to reopen this report with a new backtrace if you can reproduce this with KDE 4.9.0 or newer.