KDE connect dosn't see any devices

[steve7233]

I have KDE connect on my laptop via 17.04 and the android app on my LG Aristo and neither device can see the other.

[whatthefunk]

Do they use a common LAN?

[Bings]

In my experience, it's a bit sketchy in picking up the initial connection and after that it's fine. So make sure you are as close to the Wi Fi antenna with your devices as possible.

[steve7233]

In my experience, it's a bit sketchy in picking up the initial connection and after that it's fine. So make sure you are as close to the Wi Fi antenna with your devices as possible.

Iput the Xfinity gateway right beside my laptop and still nothing and my smart phone can't see anything either.

[GreyGeek]

I have no doubt that ModemManager is trying to connect. Open a konsole and issue
dmesg | less
and look for error msgs related to your wifi driver or the 802.11 listings.


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[steve7233]

I found my phone wasn't connected to my WI-FI! For some reason my lap top keeps loosing the pairing. Maybe connection manager is bugged for my computer or who knows but when I redo the pairing everything seems to work... Until it looses the phone again. Strange behavior.

I just found this in my log:

0.388195] PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug * back to looking for wifi stuff.

Another interesting line:

0.440636] acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge

[GreyGeek]

Are you trying to connect your phone to the web through your laptop? Or, are you trying to connect your phone to your laptop through KConnect?

Why not just connect it directly, then it won't matter if the laptop is on or not.

[steve7233]

Are you trying to connect your phone to the web through your laptop? Or, are you trying to connect your phone to your laptop through KConnect?

Why not just connect it directly, then it won't matter if the laptop is on or not.

through Connect.

[oshunluvr]

KDE Connect is not super stable here, but works 80%-ish of the time. Do you have a firewall up? For ufw, add these rules:

sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp
sudo ufw reload

About once a week or so , I have to re-pair. They seem to "forget" each other every so often.

[steve7233]

No Firewall. I wounder if connection manger might be part of the problem as it keeps connecting to the wrong WI fi.

[steve7233]

I just manually connected and kdeconnect gives the following error:

Unable to save bookmarks in /home/vince/.locale/share/user-places.xbel is not writable. This error message will only be shown once. The cause of the error needs to be fixed as quickly as possible, which most likely is a full hard drive.
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev             1964388        0   1964388   0% /dev
tmpfs             397448     6488    390960   2% /run
/dev/sda6       19092136  5426476  12672792  30% /
tmpfs            1987224        0   1987224   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            1987224        0   1987224   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda5      167166488 43402664 115202572  28% /home
/dev/sda8       28704676    45196  27178316   1% /usr/local
/dev/sda7       38183144  1261712  34952080   4% /var
tmpfs             397444        0    397444   0% /run/user/119
tmpfs             397444       12    397432   1% /run/user/1000
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$

Maybe it's because of the way I partitioned. Maybe it's trying to right using a bad path. Is there a way to system link it to the correct path?

[whatthefunk]

What are the file permissions for /home/vince/.locale/share/user-places.xbel?

[GreyGeek]

You should turn on your ufw firewall.

/home/vince/.locale/share/user-places.xbel is not writable. This error message will only be shown once. The cause of the error needs to be fixed as quickly as possible, which most likely is a full hard drive.

WTF points out that user-places.xbel is either not owned by your or is read only. You need to fix that. It suggests that other files & directories of your home account may have incorrect ownership a/o permissions.

If it is read-only you'll need to
chattr +rw ....
if it is owned by root then you will need to
sudo chown yourname:yourname ...

[steve7233]

You should turn on your ufw firewall.

WTF points out that user-places.xbel is either not owned by your or is read only. You need to fix that. It suggests that other files & directories of your home account may have incorrect ownership a/o permissions.

If it is read-only you'll need to
chattr +rw ...
if it is owned by root then you will need to
sudo chown yourname:yourname ...

I suspect it is looking in the wrong place as I made several partitions.
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 1964412 0 1964412 0% /dev
tmpfs 397448 11480 385968 3% /run
/dev/sda6 19092136 5532884 12566384 31% /
tmpfs 1987224 20024 1967200 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1987224 0 1987224 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda7 38183144 1301948 34911844 4% /var
/dev/sda5 167166488 71470104 87135132 46% /home
/dev/sda8 28704676 45196 27178316 1% /usr/local
tmpfs 397444 0 397444 0% /run/user/119
tmpfs 397444 20 397424 1% /run/user/1000
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$
Do I need a system link or something?

[GreyGeek]

I suspect it is looking in the wrong place as I made several partitions.
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 1964412 0 1964412 0% /dev
tmpfs 397448 11480 385968 3% /run
/dev/sda6 19092136 5532884 12566384 31% /
tmpfs 1987224 20024 1967200 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1987224 0 1987224 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda7 38183144 1301948 34911844 4% /var
/dev/sda5 167166488 71470104 87135132 46% /home
/dev/sda8 28704676 45196 27178316 1% /usr/local
tmpfs 397444 0 397444 0% /run/user/119
tmpfs 397444 20 397424 1% /run/user/1000
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$
Do I need a system link or something?

The df command reveals nothing about the permission or ownership of the /home/vince/.locale/share/user-places.xbel file.
Paste the output of
vdir /home/vince/.locale/share/user-places.xbel
in your reply. It should tell us who owns that file and what its permissions are.

Also, why did you put /usr/local and /var on separate partitions? That is very wasteful of disk space. And what are you doing with geoclue? (ID = 119).

/dev/sda8 28704676 45196 27178316 1% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 38183144 1261712 34952080 4% /var
tmpfs 397444 0 397444 0% /run/user/119

Except for a swap file (when using EXT4, not Btrfs) or creating partitions on which to install additional distros, there is little gained by arbitrarily slicing up the HD space for various system subdirectories, and lots of space to lose, or the possibility of running out of space in a partition. Say you have a 500Gb HD and 8 Gb of RAM and you are going to install only one distro using EXT4 as the fs. You partition /dev/sda into /dev/sda1 using 490Gb and /dev/sda2 using 10Gb. You set "/" as the mount point for /dev/sda1 and format it using EXT4. You make /dev/sda2 the swap partition. It has to be as big or bigger than RAM to allow hibernation. The system files automatically use what ever space they need under / and that includes /home. If you create additional partitions and assign various root subdirectories to them you have to hope that you've assigned enough space so that you don't experience disk out of space errors for those subdirectories, OR, that you've assigned too much space to them and that space becomes wasted. Your account is put under /home as /home/youracctname and you have ownership and rw permission in youracctname and its subdirectories. If you mess with your home account files while running as root in a Konsole or with some GUI app you'll change the ownership of those files to root and possibly their permission as well.

Because you cannot write to user-places.xbel it suggests that either you've set the immutable setting or you've marked it as read only, or it is owned by root or some other user with an ID less than yours, which is 1000. Geoclue perhaps?