Bug 394551

Summary: Connection Fails with no error message if share media '/media' doesn't exist
Product: [Applications] krdc Reporter: tyx <leap.john.doe>
Component: RDPAssignee: Urs Wolfer <uwolfer>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: bastian.beischer, l.jirkovsky, linus.kardell, maalmike, Mathias.Homann, noga.dany, tomsk_interface
Priority: NOR    
Version: 18.12   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 19.12.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: connection dialog

Description tyx 2018-05-22 08:11:21 UTC
Created attachment 112806 [details]
connection dialog

Reproduce steps:

 - Establish a new RDP connection
 - In the opened host configuration, enter a directory that desnot exist in the share media option(default value is /media)
 - click ok.

The screen flickers and no error shown, and nothing happen.
Comment 1 Miguel Aguayo 2018-06-20 06:27:45 UTC
I can confirm this happens with Antergos
KRDC 18.04.2-1
freerdp 1:2.0.0_rc2
Comment 2 Daniel Noga 2019-06-19 15:13:01 UTC
Same problem on openSUSE Leap 15.1:
KRDC 18.12.3
freerdp 2.0.0_rc4
Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2019-12-10 12:57:58 UTC
*** Bug 397574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Christophe Marin 2019-12-11 07:35:25 UTC
Fixed in 19.12.0
Comment 5 Mathias Homann 2019-12-11 08:42:02 UTC
*** Bug 411401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Mathias Homann 2019-12-11 08:43:13 UTC
on todays systems the default should be /run/media/(username) instead of /media
Comment 7 Linus Kardell 2023-10-20 15:14:35 UTC
This issue still exists. At least it's gives an error message now, but it's still trying to share a nonexistent directory by default