William Morder via tde-users wrote:

> When I want to inspect my hard drives (internal/external,
> mounted/unmounted), I found it is sometimes useful to enter, in the
> address bar:
> 
> media:/
> 
> This gives me information about my drives at a glance, as well as allowing
> access to various tools and settings for working with those disks and
> partitions. I don't use it often (relatively speaking), but now I find
> that I cannot use it at all when running Konqueror as root.

Isn't it using dbus and dbus is not running for root?