Bug 446485

Summary:	Removable storage does not appear in Disks & Devices applet
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Lastique <andysem>
Component:	Disks & Devices widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.22.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.23
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Lastique 2021-12-04 17:28:24 UTC

SUMMARY

Sometimes, after attaching a removable storage, it does not appear in the Disks & Devices applet. This does not always happen, and usually when that happens the applet stops showing any newly attached removable devices, not necessarily the one that originally caused the problem. I have seen this happen with SATA HDDs and USB flash drives.

I can see the attached storage device in the lsblk output, and I can mount the device manually in the command line, so the device is definitely recognized by the OS.

I tried changing the applet settings between showing all devices or removable only, it didn't help. When showing all devices the applet still doesn't list the newly attached device.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

I don't have a reliable reproducer, as I'm not sure what causes the problem to happen. It simply stops registering any newly attached storage devices.

EXPECTED RESULT

The applet should reliably register newly attached storage devices.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Kubuntu 21.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-22-lowlatency (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-12-04 20:06:51 UTC

This was fixed in Plasma 5.23 already. :)