KDE System Monitor clears xml when disk is full

[Jason]

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

If the partition in which KDE System Monitor is installed on is full, System Monitor will clear (delete all contents of) the files containing most of the layout. The files affected seem to be:
~/.kde/share/apps/ksysguard/ProcessTable.sgrd
~/.kde/share/apps/ksysguard/SystemLoad2.sgrd

The story behind this is, I ran out of space on the partition I installed Ubuntu and Kubuntu on. (Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 with kubuntu-desktop installed.) While trying to figure out what was wrong I opened and closed System Monitor several times. On starting System Monitor I recieve two separate errors telling me these files are not valid XML files:

The file /home/phantom/.kde/share/apps/ksysguard/ProcessTable.sgrd does not contain valid XML.
The file /home/phantom/.kde/share/apps/ksysguard/SystemLoad2.sgrd does not contain valid XML.

The System Monitor window then appears but is just a large, empty (gray) window, with some menus at the top and a status bar at the bottom.

I have browsed to the directory to confirm that both files exist but are 0 bytes.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 23 14:52:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ksysguard
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ksysguard 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64

[Jason (beatme101)]

Just a quick addendum, the information in the previous reply was added automatically by the bug reporter in Ubuntu and doesn't seem to contain the actual errors I described above, or much information that seems particularly useful in troubleshooting this, probably because I selected to report the bug from the Help menu in System Monitor.

Also, System Monitor worked the first time I opened it when the disk was full, it was only after subsequent reopenings (just a couple) that it ended up clearing the xml files. I assume that it actually cleared them on exiting.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!