SUMMARY Double clicking on volume in the VeraCrypt window launches a Dolphin window but double clicking on an file icon does not open the file. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start VeraCrypt. 2. Select and mount encrypted file. 3. Double click on volume in VeraCrypt widow (Dolphin windows appears) 4. In Dolphin windows double click on text file icon. OBSERVED RESULT A Kate icon appears next to Mouse cursor and an entry for Kate appears in the task manger for a fraction of a second then they both disappear. EXPECTED RESULT Kate is launched with the selected file open. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: plasmashell 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0 Qt Version: Qt: 5.12.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Kunbuntu 20.04.1 If instead of clicking on the VeraCrypt window to launch Dolphin, one starts Dolphin manually and moves to the mount point of the VeraCrypt volume, double clicking on the file icon works. If one dismounts the VeraCrypt volume but leaves VeraCrypt running, and then remounts the volume, everything works as expected.
It sounds like Kate is trying--and failing--to open the file. Can you do the following? 1. Open Konsole 2. type `kate` and a space 3. Drag the file in question into the Konsole window 4. Hit the return key Can you describe what happens, and paste in the contents of the Konsole window after doing this?
I did the following: 1. Open Konsole 2. type `kate` and a space 3. Drag the file in question into the Konsole window 4. Hit the return key Kate opened the file successfully. There were no error/warning messages. I started over again but this time I started kate from a terminal before starting veracrypt from another terminal. The file opened successfully. There were no error/warning messages in either terminal. I checked the systemd log. There was nothing in the log that had a suitable timestamp that seemed appropriate. I started over again but this time I started dolphin from a terminal before starting veracrypt. Clicking on the volume in the VeraCrypt window launched a new tab in the Dolphin window. Double clicking on an file icon successfully open the file in kate. There were some messages in the terminal: Skipped method "changeUrl" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QUrl Skipped method "slotTerminalDirectoryChanged" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QUrl Skipped method "openNewTabAfterCurrentTab" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QUrl Skipped method "openNewTabAfterLastTab" : Type not registered with QtDBus in parameter list: QUrl Unsupported return type 65 QPixmap in method "grab" Unsupported return type 65 QPixmap in method "grab" I did a web search and found that one can look at standout and standerr for a detached process via /proc. I then did the following: 1. Start VeraCrypt. 2. Select and mount encrypted file. 3. Double click on volume in VeraCrypt widow (Dolphin windows appears) 4. In a terminal, I located the pid of the dolphin instance (8223) 5. cd /proc/8223/fd 6. tail -f 2 7. In the Dolphin window double click on text file icon. Kate started and opened the file. I then quit the 'tail' process and double clicked on text file icon in the Dolphin window. The bug appeared: a Kate icon appears next to Mouse cursor and an entry for Kate appears in the task manger for a fraction of a second then they both disappear. I then started a new 'tail' process in the terminal and double clicked on text file icon in the Dolphin window. Kate started and opened the file.
Thanks. Seems like Kate may be doing something a bit odd. Moving the bug there.
Kate uses just normal KIO to access the file. I don't see how we can do this wrong just for this type of file.
Hi, sorry, I don't think this can be fixed in Kate. Kate just uses KIO for file handling. I would rather assume there is something strange happening with the way VeraCrypt mounts the stuff. Could you re-try with a more recent version. e.g. out of 2022? Thanks! (and not just Kate, but the system, too)
I am now running Kubuntu 22.04. I've just pulled down the latest Veracrypt (1.25.9). The problem persists except that I can no longer see any messages by starting dolphin from a terminal or looking at /proc. I also cannot see any relevant messages in the system logs. Any suggestions as to how to get more debug info on this issue? Ian Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-46-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Hi, sorry, have no idea, I have no clue how VeraCrypt works in that regard. We do nothing special there, for local files, we just end up using the Qt API and that will use whatever libc provides.
Fair enough. Thanks for having a look. Ian
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