| 2010-11-12 17:42:26 |
Matthias Andree |
description |
Binary package hint: gconf
This isn't easy to reproduce, but has happened twice.
Situation:
1. evolution starts (and with it gconfd)
2. disk is full
3. next time, evolution is started again, it starts the mail account wizard.
Only remedy was to log out the affected user, shut down her gconfd, and restore the $HOME/.gconfd/ directory from backup.
This leads to the conclusion that gconfd isn't sufficiently careful when rewriting configuration files such as $HOME/.gconfd/apps/evolution/mail/%gconfd.xml. It SHOULD write to a temporary file, fsync() and close it, and only then rename it over the old file.
If it did that, only the configuration /CHANGES/ would have been lost, not the whole configuration as such.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libgconf2-4 2.31.91-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 12 18:25:38 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gconf |
Binary package hint: gconf
This isn't easy to reproduce, but has happened twice.
Situation:
1. evolution starts (and with it gconfd)
2. disk is full
3. evolution is closed.
4. next time evolution is started, it starts the mail account setup wizard.
The only remedy was to log out the affected user, shut down her gconfd, and restore the $HOME/.gconfd/ directory from backup.
This leads to the conclusion that gconfd isn't sufficiently careful when rewriting configuration files such as $HOME/.gconfd/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml. gconfd SHOULD write to a temporary file, fsync() and close it, and only then rename it over the old file.
If it did that, only the configuration /CHANGES/ would have been lost, not the whole configuration as such.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libgconf2-4 2.31.91-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 12 18:25:38 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gconf
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