I wanted to plug-in my USB Harddrive today. When the popup of the device manager was about to appear, plasmashell showed an empty window instead and crashed. All I could do was a "killall plasmashell" and then "/usr/bin/plasmashell" to start it again. Second try, crashed again. It wrote "trying to show an empty dialog" to the konsole. The USB Drive got mounted anyway, I can access it normally after restarting plasma. "/var/log/syslog" says: Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.551585] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646695] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0480, idProduct=a00c Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646701] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646705] usb 2-1.2: Product: External USB 3.0 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646708] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: TOSHIBA Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646711] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 20131215081964 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.647082] usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.647245] scsi host10: usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 9: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2" Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 9 was not an MTP device Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.626059] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 5438 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.626676] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.629000] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525164 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.629867] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.629878] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.630729] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.647272] sdb: sdb1 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.651497] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/TOSHIBA_External_USB_3_2e0_20131215081964" has new interfaces: ("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive") Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: org.kde.baloo: "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/TOSHIBA_External_USB_3_2e0_20131215081964" Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: QObject::connect: invalid null parameter Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb" has new interfaces: ("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block", "org.freedesktop.UDisks2.PartitionTable") Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: org.kde.baloo: "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb" Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: QObject::connect: invalid null parameter Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb1" has new interfaces: ("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block", "org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem", "org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Partition") Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze org.kde.runners.baloo[1417]: org.kde.baloo: "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb1" "/var/log/kern.log" says: Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.551585] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646695] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0480, idProduct=a00c Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646701] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646705] usb 2-1.2: Product: External USB 3.0 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646708] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: TOSHIBA Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.646711] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 20131215081964 Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.647082] usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected Nov 2 18:54:45 glaze kernel: [ 2107.647245] scsi host10: usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.626059] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 5438 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.626676] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.629000] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525164 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.629867] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.629878] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.630729] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.647272] sdb: sdb1 Nov 2 18:54:48 glaze kernel: [ 2110.651497] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
If there's a crash I need to see the backtrace, which can be found with the sad face icon in the system tray after a crash. I can't do much otherwise, sorry.
Never mind. For some reason I can't explain it works today. I had mounted it on my synology, unmounted it and plugged it back to my notebook. And now it works as intended, doesn't crash plasma. But as a sidenode: Since plasmashell froze completely, there was no "sad face" icon. Can I extract the mentioned backtrace from elsewhere?
I'm sorry to reopen this. But the hang does occur again. Sometimes plasma hangs on plugging in a USB harddrive or my tablet (via usb), sometimes it does not hang. However, the drive is mounted a can use it normally after killing and restarting plasma. Plasma will hang again if I click the device-icon in the traybar again. As previously mentioned, since plasma gets unresponsive there is no "sad-face-icon" I could click. Can you give me details on how I can access the backtrace on another way?
Created attachment 108839 [details] Traybar Icon for devices I mean this icon. When I click on it, plasma crashes again.
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This also happens when i'm mounting a cd rom.
If this is reproducible, install debug information packages for Qt and Plasma, and try to run plasmashell with gdb in Konsole. Please see https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports
Seemed to be a problem with the NFS mounting. A while ago I mounted some directories of my synology via NFS. Since I uncommented these lines, the crashes doesn't appear any more. I will put them in again and try to get some meaningful debug-infos.
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