storage media dialog (7.10) [solved]

[Michael Bach (gmx)]

Michael Bach (gmx) wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have recently upgraded from 6.10 to 7.10. Everything went ok, with the 
>   exception of a few glitches. Most prominent fail is the absence of the 
> media dialog which appears when a new medium (cd, usb-drive, 
> sd-card,...) is attached to the system (The one where kubuntu asks what 
> to do with the content).
> I can re-initiate the dialog if I just change a minor setting. For 
> example if I check "Enable medium application autostart after mount", 
> click apply, uncheck "Enable ..." and click ok.
> This is in "Settings"->"Control Center"->"Peripherals"->"Storage 
> Media"->"Advanced"
> Now, after plugging in an external disk, the dialog shows up as normal. 
> After a reboot the dialog does not show up again until I repeat the 
> above procedure.
> Anybody know how to fix this?
> 
> Mike
> 

By accident I got the dialog appearing as normal agin. During backup 
with rsync I got read-error messages regarding three or four 
1-Byte-files with "lock" in the filename, in the ~/.kde directory. With 
permission set to 600 and user:group as root:root I could neither read 
these files nor delete them, only as root.
Removing them got my file dialog back to work. Only, I don't know which 
one of these files was exactly causing the dialog trouble. I just 
deleted them all in one go.

Mike