Re: [Evolution] sudden loss of config

[Michael Gruner <stockraser yahoo de>]

> > 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?
unfortunatly the only way to get the box up again :-(
> > 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. I'm about discussing the lock-up of Linux on lkml.
> 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.
reiserfs on suse 7.3 with kernel 2.4.19-rc1 (but also happend on 2.4.17
and 18 with reiserfs). I think the real problem as you mentioned is that
the configfile(s?) are not written immediatly back to disk after closing
evo? I think this because last time I lost my config I closed evo BEFORE
I stoped my X-session (and the box hang up). Only some seconds
before...maybe I must wait a longer time?


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