Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evo crashed and my email configuration was lost

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Well, bonobo-conf 0.15 and earlier were also not very good about making
sure data was successfully written either, so the problem may just be
bonobo-conf (0.16 fixes this by rewriting libxml's xmlSaveFile to do
proper error checking).

Jeff

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:48, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeu 12/09/2002 à 14:37, Not Zed a écrit :
> > this belongs on the evolution users list.
> >
> > depends on what sort of crash u had, but sure it sounds non ideal.
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 10:33, Francisco Javier Fernandez wrote:
> > > I 'm runing evo 1.0.8 and due to a crash when i was configuring a emai
> > > account I lost all my configuration and had to re-enter it. ¿Does not it
> > > seems a bad behaviour?
>
> It happened to me and the culprit is reiserfs. This filesystem has a
> tendency to mess open files at crash time, it seems. I have an unstable
> motherboard on one of my pcs (will repair it soon) and lost my Evo
> config quite often (freeze computer with Evo running, reboot, loose
> config at reiserfs's journal-replay).
>
>
>
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