Viewing the root file system ("/") shows no files

[Victor Thompson]

When navigating to the root file system the application shows no files on the device. Note, that this does work as expected on the desktop. The permissions on the files/folders in / are all 755 so the folders should be visible to the phablet user:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 3 15:27 bin/

I would expect to be able to see the files/folders in "/" using the Filemanager.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

Note, this seems to only affect the root directory. The user can go to /bin or some other directory with similar permissions and view the files that exist there.

[Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer)]

I remember something similar in the terminal app (obviously can't check as we still can't run any commands). Something like you couldn't cd into / or ls it. So, this might be something in the app confinement affecting all apps?

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

I have a terminal app work around for the "Enter and Backspace" bug, lp:1257791. And it seems you are right--there does appear to be a permissions issue. See the attached.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

Also, if you SSH to the device and "ls /" the phablet use is allowed to read the contents.

[Carlos Jose Mazieri (carlos-mazieri)]

It works when running from QtCreator (I installed the plugin in the default directory)

Command launched by QtCreator on device:
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmlscene /home/phablet/dev_tmp/ubuntu-filemanager-app/filemanager.qml --desktop_file_hint=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/filemanager.desktop

The same command also works and reads "/" when launched from a terminal.

But I could not use the same command to start the the click filemanager.

It looks like this bug is related to the plaftform.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

It works in the emulator...

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

This appears to have been fixed in a recent image. Utopic r53 no longer sees this issue. Marking as fixed until someone can confirm a fix was released.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Definitely fixed - probably for a while