Re: Bug#113399: balsa: Completely trashes its own config when /home is out of disk space.

[Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>]

This sounds like an easy one to reproduce: would some kind balsa
developer care to temporarily fill up their /home partition and and
trace the various problems balsa trips over?

Jules

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:14:27PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> Package: balsa
> Version: 1.1.7+1.2pre3-2
> Severity: important
> 
> It seems balsa does not check the return values of some system calls.  When
> /home runs out of disk space, new emails (in an IMAP mailbox) are shown as 
> having no author, no subject, etc (everything is blank).  Trying to reply to
> one of them will cause it to segfault.  After you free up some space, and
> run balsa again, your entire configuration is lost, and you are presented
> with the "you seem to be running balsa for the first time" druid.

[installed versions of packages snipped, you can get them from the bug web page http://bugs.debian.org/113399 ]