Re: [Evolution] sudden loss of config

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 15:00, Michael Gruner wrote:
> > > 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 :-(

this just screams loss of data

> > > 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?

wait until the annoying "Evolution is closing" dialog to disappear, if
it is still up then your data might not have been written to disk yet.

Jeff

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