XApps don't see sd card

[Natalia]

XApps (I tried Libre Office, Gimp, gedit...) don't see the SD card. At the same time I see this SD card in File Manager application and after performing "Unlock full access" can work with it normally. Location of SD card in File Manager looks like /media/phablet/... Open file dialog in XApps shows empty folder /media

[Blade (pulsarsource)]

Same problem here using bq m10

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

is this true for all removable media?

[Larry Price (larryprice)]

We don't mount external media by default, so this is currently expected behavior.

On a side note, we've had issues mounting external media in lxc in general. Works fine in a chroot environment after adding the mount.

[Blade (pulsarsource)]

I'm not sure anything has to be mounted. The problem is: The external media is already mounted by the operating system, and it is being seen by apps as music player and images, but the XApps don't see the already mounted device.

[Larry Price (larryprice)]

X apps are run in a libertine container. Any paths which a user wants to access must be mounted within the libertine container. Currently we bind-mount several of the basic home directories by default to cover most use-cases. External media is a bit different because it can be added/removed at any time. We have recently implemented a feature to add custom bind-mounts to a libertine container (including external media), but this feature is not available on the m10.

Before closing this bug, we should figure out if we want to try to sweep /media/$USER for any available media before starting a container.

[Blade (pulsarsource)]

Thanks for the explanation, Larry.

A little more information:
I've tried a workaround based on soft link in any place inside /home pointing to the external SD, but doesn't work either.

[Larry Price (larryprice)]

That's probably because libertine only mounts parts of /home. You could try creating the link in a directory that libertine definitely mounts, such as /home/phablet/Documents.

[Blade (pulsarsource)]

Hi Larry, I tried your solution, but in my case didn't work.

I have a SD formated in ext4 (using mkfs.ext4 command from inside the tablet), and mounted from command line in the table, because the mount app doesn't work with this file system (https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1584353)

I've mounted on /media/sd

I made a symbolic link in /home/phablet/Documents to /media/sd, and I can see both paths (/media/sd and /home/phablet/Documents/sd) from file explorer tool or media player, but... the office tools don't see the path

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

@Blade instead of soft linking directories, try mounting the SD card partition directly on /home/phablet/Documents/sd.

[Christopher Townsend (townsend)]

This should be fixed by doing the following:

libertine-container-manager configure -i $container_id -b add -p /path/to/media

Closing Fix Released.