Tomboy data loss on system crash, when using ext4

[Marius Gedminas]

Binary package hint: tomboy

My laptop crashed. When I rebooted, I couldn't find the Tomboy note I had open before. Looking closer I discovered a 0-length file in ~/.local/share/tomboy/ which was all that remained from my note. I restored it from a backup, but lost all changes made today.

I hadn't made any changes to the content of the note in the last hour prior to the crash; the only changes were to the cursor position and/or the location of the note on my screen. Losing data because Tomboy wants to preserve those details is not very nice...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: tomboy 1.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 26 22:10:56 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=lt_LT:lt:en_GB:en
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=lt_LT.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: tomboy

[ulefr01 (franz-ulenaers)]

this problem comes also up on other filesystems : ntfs

[Hardy Henneberg (hh-hhenne)]

This is really annoying ! Just lost a very important note yesterday after a system crash. Found two 0-length files - apparently I have lost one more without noticing.
System: Ubuntu 10.04 , ext4, and Tomboy 1.2.1

[Lapse of Reason (lapseofreason0)]

This bug has been reported upstream, here is the corresponding bug report:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653445

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.