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 > > > -- > Windmuehlenweg 22 07907 Schleiz > mobil: +491628955029 > e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
