Bug 297764

Summary:	Device notifier does not let you automount attached storage devices
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Alfred Egger <alfred.egger>
Component:	widget-devicenotifier	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, DoubleJay.Bee, guenter.k, kde, kde, lee.eden, skvedo, wilderkde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.80 (beta1)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://launchpad.net/bugs/977094
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Alfred Egger 2012-04-09 09:38:53 UTC

On KDE 4.8.2 in Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 2, device notifier does not let you activate automount for attached devices. If you go to "Removable devices", you can select everything correctly, but if you click "Apply", the button stays the same (should be greyed out to indicate it saved your settings). The next time you open the same page, nothing you changed was saved.

In .xsession-errors, it shows the following message:

plasma-desktop(26049)/plasma StatusNotifierItemSource::refreshCallback: DBusMenu disabled for this application 

The same problem happens on an untouched Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 live cd.

Please tell me if you need any further logs.

Comment 1 Janek Bevendorff 2012-06-07 22:13:17 UTC

Can confirm this for 4.8.80.
A similar issue also seems to exist for setting a shortcut. Although the shortcut seems to be saved, the Apply button stays active and the shortcut doesn't do anything (should it?)

Comment 2 DoubleJay.Bee 2012-07-30 11:34:08 UTC

I am also experiencing this problem, with KDE 4.8.4, Linux 3.2.0-27-generic-pae

Comment 3 leden 2013-01-22 12:26:36 UTC

I am also having problems with this.  Please see my post on kubuntu forums for more details.  ( http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?61612-MTP-based-MP3-player-not-mounting-%28Sony-Walkman%29&p=320548#post320548 ).  Basically I am getting "The process for the MTP protocol died unexpectedly" when I try to connect an MTP device, but would like to mount it as removable storage (which works flawlessly under gnome), which does not seem to be an option in device notifier.

Comment 4 guenter 2013-04-06 20:42:07 UTC

Same issue here after updating from openSuse 12.1(kde 4.9) to 12.3(kde4.10). Reason is:
"An unexpected error has occoured: Not authorized operation."

Comment 5 guenter 2013-12-10 18:40:30 UTC

Works for me now: KDE 4.10.5 "release 6"

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:55:56 UTC

Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham