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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 125809] Data loss when low on disk space
From:       Magnus Johansson <magnusj () it ! uu ! se>
Date:       2006-04-19 20:12:00
Message-ID: 20060419201200.24351.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From magnusj it uu se  2006-04-19 22:11 -------
"This partially write till filled up is of course also a bug."

I believe this is the same bug as I'm seeing. If there is no free space at all when \
saving I guess the partial write would be of size 0.

"But in all my tests I was always warned before I wanted to close kile."

Here is what happened in more detail:

I never open and close Kile manually, but rather let KDE's session management handle \
it. When I logout Kile is automatically closed, and when I log in it is opened with \
the documents that were open when I last logged out. Even though Kile is more or less \
always running on my computer, I don't use it everyday. The day when I lost the data \
I didn't edit any documents in Kile. It was just running and doing autosaves every \
now and then. I did some Gentoo updates which consumed all my disk space, and due to \
this bug Kile's autosave overwrote the documents with empty files. I saw Kile warn me \
about not being able to do autosave, but I ignored it since I hadn't done any editing \
(and I wasn't aware of this bug then). When I later logged out, Kile didn't warn me \
since I hadn't done any changes to the documents. The reason I hadn't come across \
this bug before is that I usually make sure there is free disk space when the updates \
are finished, and before I logout, but for some reason I didn't do that this time.

When I tried to log in the next day I couldn't, since X wants to write to some file \
when you log in. I logged in to a text-only console instead and cleared some space. \
Then I logged in to KDE, and when Kile started I noticed that the  documents were \
empty.

(As a side note: I talked to a colleague of mine about this, and apparently Emacs had \
more or less the same bug back in the day, so Kile isn't the first editor to do this. \
:-))


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