Re: Will Gnome _EVER_ be stable?

[stan <stanb awod com>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:27:33PM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:18:56PM -0500, Arthur H.  Johnson II wrote:
> >> I have absolutely no issues with the Woody GNOME packages.  I'm
> >> running Evolution, Galeon, with the standard gnome packages and I have
> >> no problems.
> >>
> >
> > So your Gnome environemt has never self destructed on you?
> 
> I know mine (Debian Woody, latest GNOME 1.4 packages) has never "self
> destructed."  From what people are saying, it only happens when your
> partition is full?  That might explain why mine hasn't ever - last runaway
> process I had only managed to fillup half the disk (rather big disk) before
> I noticed, killed it off, and deleted the file it filled up.

Well, considering I have over 30G free on that partition, I'd say that's not the cause for
mine, self destrucing.

> 
> Assuming that the problem is only the disk filling up, what solution could
> there be?  There is no way to save settings if there is no disk space, end
> of story.  Perhaps there should be more safe guards against deleting
> settings if new data can't be stored?  I.e., write the new, temporary
> settings file, then "rename" it to the real config file's name?
> 
> Or do I have no idea what I'm talking about in regards to settings right
> now?  ~,^
> 

Well, sonce that's not the problem here, this is not a sollution, for me.
However, the general case solutin to the question you pose, goes like this.

1. Create backup copy of config to be changed.
2. Verify that you have an _exact_ copy.
3. Edit original.
4. If _any_ problem occurs, renmae copy to orignal name.
   Note that this is a _rename_ which will not require _any_ additional space,
   since you will only be modifying directory structure entires.


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