File dialogs aren't working; "URL cannot be listed trash:/"

[ronw]

Edit: Reinstalling from the Beta iso got rid of whatever ailed my system. File dialogs are working fine. Counting a reinstall as Solved since this is beta.


Bringing this into the shiny new forum from another thread.

File Open/Save dialogs aren't working for me. Where I should see files is just blank. Easier to show than explain:

Breeze Dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMscjFLo9LU

Breeze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdgwJfUlko

I tried both themes at claydoh's suggestion. I also logged in under a plain vanilla user account with no customizations. Same problem.

I start kate from konsole, click on File, Open and get this:

~ $ kate
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze Dark)"
"URL cannot be listed
trash:/"
"URL cannot be listed
trash:/"
couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'.
"
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver

Start usb-creator-kde from konsole, click the Other button to pick an iso, and:

~ $ usb-creator-kde
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze Dark)"
"URL cannot be listed
trash:/"
"URL cannot be listed
trash:/"
couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'.
"
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/ronw/.cache/ksycoca5"
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver

I put a couple of files in the trash and they show up as expected. Dolphin works fine (what a great file manager).

Searching for "URL cannot be listed trash:/" and "Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'" hasn't lead to any solutions. One of the suggestions was to rebuild sycoca, so:

~ $ kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca5 running...
Recreating ksycoca file ("/home/ronw/.cache/ksycoca5", version 300)
The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.
Saving
Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ("services", "servicetypes", "xdgdata-mime", "apps")

[vinnywright]

hmmm I get

        vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ kate 
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)" 
kate: Warning, session file not found:  "/home/vinny/.local/share/kate/anonymous.katesession" 
kate: Warning, session file not found:  "/home/vinny/.local/share/kate/anonymous.katesession" 
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory 
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver 
KSambaShare: Could not find smb.conf! 

and file dialog opens with directories ............................................



and (alt+.) dot files .................................................. ..





have you run off updates recently

        sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

@hear kate-5.0.0 Using KDE Frameworks 5.7.0
KDE-4.14.5
Plasma-5.2.1

VINNY

[ronw]

Yeah, update at least once a day. Sometimes 3 if I'm antsy.

Kate Version 5.0.0
Using Frameworks 5.8.0

Plasma 5.2.1
Qt 5.4.0

claydoh isn't seeing the problem either, so something fiddly somewhere on my system.

I also remembered today that the File Save dialog in Ksnapshot works fine.

[vinnywright]

so something fiddly somewhere on my system.

LOL ....ya "fiddly" ,,,,,,,, well we are testing out a system still under development

about to post some Nvidia ,,,, fiddlyness

VINNY

[ronw]

Reinstalled from the Beta iso and all is good. I guess that counts as Solved during beta testing.