Bug#619127: kdelibs4c2a: dcopserver prints unhelpful error message when out of disk space

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>]

severity 619127 wishlist
tag 619127 wontfix
thanks

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> wrote:
> 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.

[snip]

> 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.

This is a valid wishlist bug. Sadly, upstream stopped maintaining KDE
3 libs more than two years ago, so I'm tagging it as wontfix.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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