GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 436252
when out of disk space, create dialog storm which freezes the box
Last modified: 2017-08-25 08:56:31 UTC
Please describe the problem: While i was compiling stuff, i got a call and was updating an apointment i had in the evolution calendar. The compilation caused my /home to be full, and as thus, evolution was unable to update the apointment. But instead of opening a dialog informing me about the issue, and let me free some space, it created a dialog storm, which left the box fully frozen (it was a 1Ghz powerbook, with 512MB of ram), leaving me unable to move away from evolution, unable to switch to a VT console, unable to even kill X with the ctr-alt-del combo (well, maybe due to apple thinking there is no need for both backspace and del, not sure), leaving me no choice but to reboot the machine. This caused the loss of all the not-yet-saved data, thus the severity. Steps to reproduce: 1. Make sure disk is almost full, for example by mounting user test's home directory with mount -t tmpfs -o size=1000000 tmpfs /home/test before logging in 2. Create calendar entries until disk is full Actual results: Lots of error messages flood the screen. The only way to regain control of the desktop is to kill the evolution process. Unsaved changes are lost. Expected results: Only one error message was shown. Allowed to make more space before saving again. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: This bug was originally reported by Sven Luther <luther@debian.org> at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407925 This bug is related to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382403
Thanks for a bug report. I retested this with 3.24.5 and there is no dialog storm anymore. There's just shown a banner informing the user about full disk.
*** Bug 441152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***