MediaWriter loses track of all USB drives, if one is removed while it's running

Open ferdnyc opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

MediaWriter has other issues with device updates, beyond the progress thing. Like:

Start the application with two USB drives inserted. (So, it shows a dropbox with two items to choose from, for "USB Drive", on the Write Options screen.)

Before starting a write, remove one of the drives

Result:

Both drives disappear from MediaWriter, and it decides that there are no USB devices available to write to.

Quitting and relaunching the application will cause it to discover the remaining drive (the one that's been inserted the whole time), and it can once again be targeted for writing.

Originally posted by @ferdnyc in #825

This is on Fedora 42, running the latest development code built from source.

Jun 23 '25 06:06 ferdnyc

The same thing happens if you don't physically remove the second drive, but merely Eject it from within Nautilus. Both drives immediately disappear from Media Writer.

(Reinserting the second drive then causes them both to reappear.)

Jun 23 '25 06:06 ferdnyc