[SOLVED] strange usb action after last update

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After the last update, 2 days ago, when I plug in a usb drive and select to open with File Manager,  a dialog box appears that says that I need root privileges for this action and then opens synaptic. The command shows "/usr/bin/synaptic /media/tera1". tera1 is the usb drive I'm trying to open in file manager.

In the notification settings/device actions, it shows 3 actions for File Manager and none have anything to do with Synaptic.

The device mounts automatically to the proper mount point when that dialog window appears.

I don't know how to attached a picture.

Any idea what happened or what I need to do to change it back to actually opening in the File Manager?

Thanks

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[Just17]

What DE?   KDE as per pic ......  sorry had written response and left it before sending.

Which file manager?

Have you tried other file managers?

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That looks like a KDE password root password prompt. Could be Dolphin.

Hmmm... Has he configured some external media for a repository in Synaptic?

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What do you think is Dolphin? the pop up window?

Not sure what you mean by 'trying other file managers'. When the popup window appears, before doing anything else, the disk actually gets mounted in the right place and I can use any file manager to access it. I have not configured any external repositories in synaptic. I've been using the same repository for the past several years and have never changed it. Everything is the same as before the last update I did.

Not that this has anything to do with it, but when I enter the root pw in the dialog window, it opens synaptic. None of the commands in the Device Activities have anything to do with synaptic. I've been doing the same thing for at least a year now. The only thing different was the previous KDE update, where I followed the instructions on the forum and had no problems afterwards. Everything else seems to work as usual. This one is really strange.

This is the actual command in the Device Notifier: kioclient exec %25f

I believe it may have something to do with an interaction of how the old KDE worked and the new one, but that's only a guess. I don't know where to look to resolve this.

Thanks for any help.

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OK. My Device Notifier too has the same command listed. But it works all right.
What does that %25f indicate?

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The mount point of the drive.

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OK, I've looked in udev, hotplug, solid and no file has the word synaptic in it. If you look at the command in the window that's trying to execute, it doesn't make sense. Where is that command coming from?

My understanding is that 'solid' handles the actions for the device. This is the command shown in the Device Notifier/Device Actions. It simply says to mount the drive, which it does. Then the 'Hotplug' rules take over and perform the next action which should be to open that drive in the File Manager. I can't find where that command is located. Why does it want to call up synaptic? I don't think it's smart enough to realize that maybe I don't have something installed that I should. :-)

Anyway, If someone has ANY idea of where that command might be hiding, I'd sure appreciate it. I have switched to Device Manager and have the drive mounted automatically, instead of Device Notifier, but it bugs me that I can't figure out where that command is located.

Thanks for your help.

[SOLVED]

Went into systemsettings and checked the default File Manager. Somehow it was set to synaptic instead of a filemanager. Beats the heck out of me as to how that got changed as I haven't been in 'systemsettings' for well over a year now.

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Glad to know it was not another unreproducible bug
-SS.