[plug] X crash wipes dot files

[W.D. Kenworthy]

youve run out of space on your home partition ...

BillK

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 15:24, ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:
> Has anyone seen the following before?  It has happened to my twice on
> different machines, both running Debian with Gnome and Sawfish from stable
> and testing.
> 
> X decides to crash for some reason and once it returns, almost every dot
> file in the home directory of that user is zero length - so every setting is
> gone.  I know sawfish keeps window geometry and task info in such files
> on-the-fly and would expect that file to be affected by a crash, but things
> like the .vimrc, the .ssh directory, mozilla (that was not running) and
> every single thing to do with Gnome or sawfish are also affected.  All
> normal files in the directory are unaffected and file system checks don't
> show anything amiss.
> 
> I don't know what caused the crashes.  X just hit 100 cpu for a while and
> then bailed on its own accord, all I had open was 5 gnome-terminal windows.
> 
> *madly reconfiguring*
> 
> Ryan
> 
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