"bzr st" failed to handle No space left on device for ~/.bzr.log

[timeless]

Bazaar (bzr) 1.6.1
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.4.3
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.4
  bzrlib: /home/timeless/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /home/timeless/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /home/timeless/.bzr.log

[timeless@konigsberg network-manager-applet]$ bzr st
unknown:
  po/en_US.po
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/timeless/bin/bzr", line 131, in ?
    exit_val = bzrlib.commands.main(sys.argv)
  File "/home/timeless/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 848, in main
    ret = run_bzr_catch_errors(argv)
  File "/home/timeless/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 861, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    exitcode = trace.report_exception(sys.exc_info(), sys.stderr)
  File "/home/timeless/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/trace.py", line 400, in report_exception
    log_exception_quietly()
  File "/home/timeless/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/trace.py", line 335, in log_exception_quietly
    mutter(traceback.format_exc())
  File "/home/timeless/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/trace.py", line 157, in mutter
    _trace_file.write(out)
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

network-manager-applet and network-manager were in /tmp, as it happens, both that and ~ were in the same volume, which had no free space (which is why i was running bzr st). I was looking for any files i had created so that i could copy them elsewhere and delete the bzr repository. unfortunately, as a user, i have no way of knowing if the file listed was the only one in the repo. I hope it was, because i deleted the repo (i need the space...).

Expected results:
bzr st (and similar) is to a user, a readonly operation. Failure to perform writes which are advisory should not be fatal. It's ok to warn "could not write to ~/.bzr.log because there is no disk space available", but it shouldn't affect the operation of bzr st.