136357 - Mozilla destroys and/or loose configuration informations when I close it with disk without much space left

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86501

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[ediaz]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313
BuildID:    20020313

Mozilla tried to save config files when closed.  There was not enough space to
disk.  Config files were corrupted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.run mozilla
2.fill your disk
3.stop mozilla
4.run mozilla - enjoy

Actual Results:  corrupted configs
unusable ~/.mozilla

I have to reconfigure everything.
It's especially anoying for the mailboxes.


Expected Results:  Not destroying configs is a good practice.

If the system HAVE to write configs again and again, it should:
_ write to a new file with a temp name
_ check the writing is done without an error and only then :
  _ delete the old file
  _ rename the new file

If I'm using a mailbox, it would be good to stop the mozilla shutdown and warn
be before corrupting the files it tries to update.



The straighforward data writing without space checking (or any error) caused a
mailbox content (partial) loss.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Allen]

Dupe of bug 86501

Comment 2

[Vadim Berezniker]

it sure is. thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86501 ***

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1][away 07/22 - 07/26]]

verified.