USB Drives Give Malformed URL From Device Notifier

[seascape]

This is a really annoying bug. I'm tempted to enable auto-mounting to see if that makes a difference even though that's not a setting I'd normally want enabled. I'm really sick of the "Malformed URL" messages.

[kc1di]

Yep it's still a bug

[Mister Pi]

The same thing happens to me about a third of the time. If I then click OK on the error box, the "open with file manager" option (and all the others) disappear from the Device Notifier popup, But the device is still there, with the "2 actions for this device" (or whatever your number is) visible. If I click on that, I get the options again, and clicking on the "open with file manager" option always works the second time.

So maybe there's a timing issue, where the option appears before it's really ready?

[daemon]

Hello again. Sorry to spam the forum with many questions. I found the following pages bug reports.

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...d/+bug/1762163
2. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370975

In the second link there is comment #50 from David Edmundson and mentions a commit that fixed this issue in the master branch in the "solid" repository on 2 May 2018. Now to be frank I have no idea how (k)ubuntu get the code and produce their packages, but shouldn't this commit theoretically have been already included in the Kubuntu 18.04 updates?

[daemon]

Hello again. What is the appropriate place to report this issue so that it catches the developers attention? I would really like this to be fixed.

[jglen490]

Since I've been running linux since 2002(Mandrake 8.2) and kde since the 2.0 days, I don't think I'm in any danger of being afraid of Kubuntu. Back then, if you wanted to mount a flash drive you did it at the command line, and we liked it! Now, you kids get off my lawn.

Yep, did lots of things on the command line, got into trouble there, too! Now it's just a matter of getting into trouble faster in a GUI, and fewer callouses on our typing pointers ;o)

[GreyGeek]

[kilgoretrout]

Don't be afraid of Kubuntu, be careful with whatever tool you use

Since I've been running linux since 2002(Mandrake 8.2) and kde since the 2.0 days, I don't think I'm in any danger of being afraid of Kubuntu. Back then, if you wanted to mount a flash drive you did it at the command line, and we liked it! Now, you kids get off my lawn.

[jglen490]

Switching the options in system control center to automount removable devices works for me as well, even on encrypted flash drives. However, I hate automounting removable devices as it seems so windowish and has security ramifications. Thanks for pointing out this workaround.

Automount may be "window-ish", but if it is useful for some user, then that user is free to use the feature in Kubuntu. The security ramifications are genuine, but fall into the same line of thinking as being on the internet - know where you are going, be careful when you get there. I only use my own thumb drives and my own mSD cards. I very rarely share them, and if I do, I clean and reformat when getting them back.

Don't be afraid of Kubuntu, be careful with whatever tool you use.

[kilgoretrout]

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post417425 works for me so far.

Switching the options in system control center to automount removable devices works for me as well, even on encrypted flash drives. However, I hate automounting removable devices as it seems so windowish and has security ramifications. Thanks for pointing out this workaround.

[GreyGeek]

I donno,
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[oshunluvr]

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[daemon]

Do you not see this on your toolbar?

Right :-)

[oshunluvr]

Do you not see this on your toolbar?

[daemon]

Oh, you can’t mount a device a second time after you’ve already mounted it or you have automount installed. And, you can’t mount a device from your home account if you do not have permission for it. And, see my post above.

You misunderstood. I did not try to mount a device second time. The screenshots I took was right after I clicked on the drive icon the first time. The icon was orange before and after I click on it Dolphin shows that error message, the Device Notifier pops up with its own error message and the drive is mounted successfully (I can use it normally). If, instead of Dolphin, I try to mount through the Device Notifier (again the first time) I get the "Malformed URL" error.

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post417425 works for me so far.

Thanks, I will try that as a workaround. Do you face the same issue? In my case it is not only a problem with USB sticks but all drives. Also this problem started with 18.04. I have 17.10 on the same machine in another partition and works fine.