I've experienced the same issue on 25.04. I mentioned it in the Lubuntu Support chat on May 28, 2025, but unfortunately delayed in confirming the bug here until today, Aug. 20, 2025. Below follow the details of my experience with this issue on 25.04.
On Lubuntu 24.04, I'd live-boot and pcmanfm-qt would show me, under "Devices", my internal encrypted hard drive. It would also have a default directory within home called "lubuntu" that would give me a subdirectory in /media/ for my internal hard drive and the lubuntu user. But then on Lubuntu 25.04, I'd live-boot and pcmanfm-qt no longer sees the internal drive under "Devices" even though gparted (still on 25.04) confirms its existence. And there's no longer any default "lubuntu" directory in /media/ The goal is to easily access and decrypt the encrypted internal drive upon live-booting into 25.04, preferably through using the default file manager, pcmanfm-qt. I'm not sure, but perhaps it's related to a permissions issue? For instance, my live-boot 24.04 could run "$ dmesg" no problem, but now on 25.04, for "$ dmesg", my live-boot returns "dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted" yet will work with sudo. Also if in 25.04 I just do "$ gparted", it asks me for root's password, which didn't happen in 24.04. Every time I boot fresh into 25.04, I have the same problem with pcmanfm-qt not seeing the device. Another way to explain the issue: in 24.04 I live-booted, opened pcmanfm-qt, went to /media/ and there would be a /cdrom and /lubuntu there. Now in 25.04 I live-boot and do the same thing, and only /cdrom is there, not /lubuntu. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2097694 Title: pcmanfm-qt doesn't show other filesystems drives to mount in live session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm-qt/+bug/2097694/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
