[Bug]: shell.openExternal not work at ubuntu21.04

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Electron Version

13.1.6

What operating system are you using?

Ubuntu

Operating System Version

ubuntu21.04

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

15.2.0

Expected Behavior

run shell.openExternal(url)
open a file

Actual Behavior

run shell.openExternal(url)
log
`
xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application

Synopsis

xdg-open { file | URL }

xdg-open { --help | --manual | --version }

Use 'man xdg-open' or 'xdg-open --manual' for additional info.
`

then nothing happen

but its work when I use childProcess.exec('xdg-open ' + url)

url is a file path

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

No response

[BlackHole1]

Please use electron fiddle to provide gist URL

[andersk]

This might be #28436?

[LindirQuenya]

I am having the same problem with electron v17.3.1. Here's a gist, generated by electron fiddle.

https://gist.github.com/5fb97f76b4a83861673125a921ab88be

It creates the following output when run on Ubuntu 21.10:

Saving files to temp directory...
Saved files to /tmp/tmp-160513-fF6OcW8KbuKe
Electron v17.3.1 started.
Starting inspector on 127.0.0.1:9229 failed: address already in use
xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application

Synopsis

xdg-open { file | URL }

xdg-open { --help | --manual | --version }

Use 'man xdg-open' or 'xdg-open --manual' for additional info.
Done

Changing the argument from "/home" to "file:///home" results in the expected behavior.

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[LindirQuenya]

This issue is still present in electron v21.0.1.

[zanzara]

This issue is still present in electron v21.1.0

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[LindirQuenya]

This issue is still present in Electron v25.3.0 and v26.0.0-beta5 on Ubuntu 23.04.

[LindirQuenya]

This might be #28436?

Based on the error message, I would assume that it isn't. It looks like electron is invoking xdg-open incorrectly.

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[LindirQuenya]

Still present in 27.0.2 and 28.0.0-alpha.4 on Ubuntu 23.04. Same behavior - openExternal('/home') fails with an error message, openExternal('file:///home') works fine. Is this expected behavior? Are we not supposed to be able to put file paths directly into openExternal?

[LindirQuenya]

After inserting some logging into xdg-open, it looks like electron isn't passing it any arguments in the first case? In the second case it is passed file:///home.

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[BlackHole1]

bump

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[mnvr]

Was able to reproduce the issue in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (using latest Electron 30.0.6)