On 08/17/2009 02:10 AM, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > 2009/8/12 Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>: >> Package: kaboom >> Version: 1.1.1 >> Severity: grave >> >> Hi, kaboom just caused serious data loss. I have a brand-new install of >> Debian sid. I installed kde4 (kde-standard metapackage). I start kdm, >> and on the first run of kde4, kaboom does not run. I customized the >> settings, turned on desktop effects, etc. >> >> I then rebooted. On the second start of kde4, kaboom ran. It explicitly >> said that existing kde4 settings would be unchanged. I told it to not >> backup KDE3 data and to not perform any migration. Instead, it deleted >> ALL my existing KDE4 settings. KDE3 was never installed on this system. >> There was no reason for kaboom to ever run. >> >> ..kaboom.log is attached. > > I am really sorry about that. The bug that kaboom runs on fresh kde4 > installations is known and fixed in git. About the data loss though, > it looks like you selected the option to "start with clean settings", > that's why it removed ~/.kde. The log says that: "operation: do > recursive rm of .kde dir if exists". Maybe you did it accidentally... > > Anyway, a new upload will come soon that will fix this bug. > Thanks for fixing this, the data loss probably was user error in this case. Daniel
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