Bug 368153

Summary: Plasma freeze when external device is added
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: mhruscak
Component: Disks & Devices widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: kde, notuxius
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.7.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description mhruscak 2016-09-02 13:52:21 UTC
Plasma is unable to handle when new device is connected - USB or CDROM.
After plasma reset with
p=`ps aux | grep shut-up | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
for a in $p
do
    kill "$a"
done
sleep 2
/usr/bin/plasmashell --shut-up 2>/dev/null &

there is need only for clicking on Most recent Device notifier and Plasma will crash again.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. insert USB device
or
1. click on Device Notifier

Actual Results:  
Plasma freezes

Expected Results:  
Plasma should proceed
Comment 1 Alexander Mentyu 2017-12-09 14:47:01 UTC
Is it still actual after updates?
Comment 2 mhruscak 2017-12-11 08:10:35 UTC
Unfortunately, I am unable to verify this, because I switched to RHEL 7 Workstation in the meantime.
Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-01-04 17:28:47 UTC
No backtrace, cannot reproduce.