[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#792745: Fwd: Bug#792745: Bug#792745: lightdm: session refuses to start when theres no space left without informing the user

[alberto fuentes]

Sorry, for the snarky comment... Debian as a whole feels overcritical at
times and I just snapped :P


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>
wrote:

> Yes. There's so many things which won't work if you can't write to the
> disk that it's not possible to handle them soundly.
>


So many things wont work without space, but everything worked up to the
point of login... and wont work afterwards. That looks like a good point to
inform the user about the problem

I dont expect the dm to check for space all the time, but whatever layer is
failing, the session in this case, will report an error (or crash? i dont
really know what is happening) and the dm will take over again. I dont feel
we are being too friendly with the user if we show them an error for a very
common problem

Handling it soundly would be to recover. Or to be able to get the error
from the session or possible a third thing i dont know about

That would be nice, but I dont expect that. I expect a one line check for
space that will get 80% of the benefits with 1% of the time of a proper
solution

I wont defend this any longer tho... If you still disagree, please close
this bug

thanks for maintaining lightdm!
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