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From: Roger on 29 Jan 2010 08:40 > > I'd say it was likely some file got corrupt due to the lack of disk > space; either an empty file or incomplete in some way. I know it would > be nice to know exactly what went wrong and fix it directly but it comes > down to how much time you want to spend on fixing it. > I appreciate what you're saying, but last time I had to re-create my kde settings it was a right royal PITA restoring all my old settings back again over the ensuing weeks, and I was hoping to avoid having to do so again. On the other hand, as you point out, it might be the lesser of two evils :(
From: Rob on 29 Jan 2010 09:41 Roger <roger.varley(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> I'd say it was likely some file got corrupt due to the lack of disk >> space; either an empty file or incomplete in some way. I know it would >> be nice to know exactly what went wrong and fix it directly but it comes >> down to how much time you want to spend on fixing it. >> > > I appreciate what you're saying, but last time I had to re-create my > kde settings it was a right royal PITA restoring all my old settings > back again over the ensuing weeks, and I was hoping to avoid having to > do so again. On the other hand, as you point out, it might be the > lesser of two evils :( Lesson learned: never allow diskspace to run out. It will bring your system into a state where you cannot trust anything. Some errors will be apparent, others will pop up only after weeks or months. Given that most applications don't handle out-of-diskspace at all, it would be a good thing if a big balloon appeared on the desktop whenever diskspace runs below a certain value, warning the user.
From: John Karpich on 29 Jan 2010 23:10 On 1/29/2010 2:02 AM, Roger wrote: > Hi > > KDM is not allowing me to log in to my desktop. I can log in as root > to both KDE and the console and I can login as myself at the console, > but not through KDM. KDM just goes away for a think and then returns > me to the login display. > > The only thing "unusual" that's happened lately is that I ran out of > disk space earlier in the week, but that has now been resolved. Any > suggestions as to what might be going on and where I should start > looking? > > Regards That happened to me also. I had to uninstall some programs to get the disk space back. The next time I u=install OpenSuse, I'll give it a little more space on that partition.
From: DenverD on 30 Jan 2010 03:39 Roger wrote: >> I'd say it was likely some file got corrupt due to the lack of disk >> space; either an empty file or incomplete in some way. I know it would >> be nice to know exactly what went wrong and fix it directly but it comes >> down to how much time you want to spend on fixing it. >> > > I appreciate what you're saying, but last time I had to re-create my > kde settings it was a right royal PITA restoring all my old settings > back again over the ensuing weeks, and I was hoping to avoid having to > do so again. On the other hand, as you point out, it might be the > lesser of two evils :( once you try it and learn if .kde.bad is bad and .kde is good then you can use a tool like diff to see the delta between the two and . . . well, that searching process is gonna be painful...and, then building back to a working system without having to rebuild the whole .kde is not gonna be instantaneous... there are other alternatives: -backup *before* it trashes -don't trash it -etc -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: felmon on 31 Jan 2010 13:56
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:41:22 +0000, Rob wrote: > it > would be a good thing if a big balloon appeared on the desktop whenever > diskspace runs below a certain value, warning the user. someone has probably written this utility; we should look. if I had the time to think about it, and were less clumsy at composing scripts, I think I could cook up something primitive using awk and df. Felmon |