Created attachment 175204 [details] Doesn't handle read-only disk well My backup disk got mounted read-only (don't ask…), and backup plans failed. This would be expected, but it failed to show me a sane error message. I had to look in the log file, and even then, the error message from rsync was cryptic. As a result, it took me quite a while to figure out what had happened to the disk. See attached screenshot.
*** Bug 495549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't have much time to look at it, but there is this code that is supposed to handle the situation, in planexecutor.cpp: void PlanExecutor::startBackup() { QFileInfo lInfo(mDestinationPath); if (!lInfo.isWritable()) { KNotification::event(KNotification::Error, xi18nc("@title:window", "Problem"), xi18nc("notification", "You don't have write permission to backup destination.")); exitBackupRunningState(false); return; } Somebody would need to look into why that test does not detect the situation.