Bug#619127: kdelibs4c2a: dcopserver prints unhelpful error message when out of disk space
Package: kdelibs4c2a
Version: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
I ran out of diskspace and tried to run 'kdirstat'.
It complaint that it couldn't start dcopserver.
Trying to start dcopserver manually, I got this not-so-helpful error
message:
Only one line in dcopserver file !:
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed networkIdsList argument is NULL
Googling for this error message, you can find several confused people,
mainly in russian and french-- but no solutions. After translating pages
from Russian I got the idea that there should be a ~/.DCOP* file in my
home directory and guessed that maybe it couldn't create it because I
was out of diskspace... So, after having lost half an hour, that turned
out to be the problem.
I think it should be detectable by dcopserver that it can't create this
file and then print an error message along the lines of:
Cannot create /home/carlo/.DCOPwhatever: out of disk space.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kdelibs4c2a depends on:
ii kdelibs-data 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5 core shared data for all KDE appli
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libarts1c2a 1.5.9-3+b2 aRts sound system core components
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libaspell15 0.60.6-4 GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-qt3-1 0.6.27-2 Avahi Qt 3 integration library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcups2 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libgamin0 [libfam0] 0.1.10-2+b1 Client library for the gamin file
ii libgcc1 1:4.6-20110123-1 GCC support library
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 1.15-2 GNU Libidn library, implementation
ii libilmbase6 1.0.1-3 several utility libraries from ILM
ii libjasper1 1.900.1-7+b1 The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblua50 5.0.3-4 Main interpreter library for the L
ii liblualib50 5.0.3-4 Extension library for the Lua 5.0
ii libopenexr6 1.6.1-4.1 runtime files for the OpenEXR imag
ii libpcre3 8.02-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-7+b1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.6-20110123-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.9.4-5 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii menu-xdg 0.5 freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii perl 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+2 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.4-1 X authentication utility
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
kdelibs4c2a recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kdelibs4c2a suggests:
pn fam <none> (no description available)
ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-9 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
pn perl-suid <none> (no description available)
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