No warning before reboot, when harddrive full
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kdebase (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Kubuntu 6.10, new installation, no upgrade, KDE 3.5.6 installed.
During a session my /home-partition became full or almost full. There was no warning.
After a reboot KDM started, but I couldn't log in. I would always be thrown back to KDM without any explanation. After a lot of work I figured out, that the /home-partition was full. Starting the desktop from the terminal finally showed a popup, telling me. I had to restart the desktop again to read the message, because the popup was quickly covered by the splashscreen, which then simply hung.
It may be, that the /home-partition was not yet full when I rebooted and that starting of the desktop finally filled it. The problem is, that there was no warning before reboot and the popup didn't appear when I tried to login from KDM.
So either the reporting of a 9x%-full partition is broken or it is missing. The correct solution should be to
1) check the partitions and report, as soon as they become 95% full or more
2) tell the user, that he runs the risk of no longer being able to login
3) modify KDM to show why the login failed or have a dialog-box appear instead of going back to KDM
Of course we don't want 3) to happen, since novice users will have a hard time deleting stuff from the terminal.
Thanks for reporting this. This is a problem shared by gdm as well ( bug 62638 ).