Unable to open files on mounted drives

[Olga Baranov]

Thanks for the reply Christoph,

I have resolved the issue and now reproduced it on a different PC. So 
here is how (for the protocol, in case someone else faces a similar issue):

- sudo apt install konsole # for the terminal functionality
- sudo apt install pkg-kde-tools # seems to be the critical part
- sudo apt install kate

I had to install kate via terminal, Ubuntu package manager version is 
not working (even after kde-toolkit installation).

Cheers,
Olga.

On 26.06.20 20:21, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On 2020-06-24 08:30, Olga Baranov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have issues opening certain files in Kate on Ubuntu even though my
>> user should have write and read permissions. The message reads 'The
>> file xxx can not be opened, because it is not readable'.  The rights
>> for the file look like this:
>>
>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 oxxx oxxx 3388 Jun 22 14:47 
>> /media/oxxx/ssss/aaaa/aaaa/ssss/log
>>
>> The drive looks like so in /dev:
>>
>> brw-rw----  1 root disk      8,  19 Jun 24 08:19 sdb3
>>
>> and in /media/oxxx/:
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 1 oxxx oxxx 126976 Jun 22 17:09 ssss
>>
>> Any help is appreciated! Also, please CC me for the response :)
>
> Hi,
>
> just to be sure, can you e.g. do
>
> less /media/oxxx/ssss/aaaa/aaaa/ssss/log
>
> in a terminal on that file?
>
> Actually, beside just trying to open the file, I am not sure we do that
> many other checks if we can read it.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>