Re: [Evolution] sudden loss of config

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 15:07, Michael Gruner wrote:
> Am Son, 2002-07-07 um 13.43 schrieb Not Zed:
> > Hmm, do you get any warnings or errors when it resets?
> >
> > I presume you're closing down linux and not just pulling the plug too? 
> > What about exiting evolution?
> Yesterday it did happen again: I exited evo. Imediatly after that I
> wanted to exit my windowmaker session. My screen got black and nothing
> more happend. There was no reaction on pressing any keys.

So you hit the power?

> Today in the morning I started my PC trying to fetch my mails but the
> evo config was blown away :-(
>
> So I think the config gets lost if the PC stealths imediatly after evo
> is shutted down?!

Sounds like an operating system/filesystem issue.  Maybe the config file
is being deleted or something at reboot because it wasn't written
properly to disk (you use reiserfs or ext3 or similar?).  I wonder if
they're using fsync() in bonobo-conf.