KDE4: Home folder files deleted

[Matthias Lechner]

Hi Randy,

for testing purposes I added a user "kde-devel", so the home folder that 
actually was deleted was "/home/kde-devel". In fact *all* files in this 
directory got deleted (with exception of the hidden files and those I've 
already named, very strange...).

Regarding your issue: you may quote me and use my name whereever you want as I 
posted this bug on a public mailing list :-)

Best regards
Matthias

Am Montag, 7. August 2006 18:06 schrieb Randy Kramer:
> On Sunday 06 August 2006 09:15 am, you wrote:
> > as I wanted to start contributing to KDE4, yesterday I decided to build a
> > basic KDE4 environment. The building process was very fast (much better
> > than with autotools!) and there were just a very few problems which were
> > related to my system.
> >
> > But when I started X and startkde just a few minutes ago I got some error
> > messages related to kio and I was left with a blank screen with only the
> > background visible. So I killed the X server and when I tried to restart
> > it I noticed that all files in my home folder (/home/kde-devel) with the
> > exception of /home/kde-devel/kde/share/[applications,autostart] had been
> > deleted :-(
> >
> > How does this come?
>
> Matthias,
>
> I can't answer either of your questions, but for a different reason, I'm
> interested in what happened to you.
>
> It is not totally clear to me--are you saying that all the files in your
> home directory (something like /home/<lechner or whatever>) were deleted,
> or just all the files under /home/<lechner  or whatever>/kde-devel were
> deleted (with the exception of  /kde/share/[applications,autostart]?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Randy Kramer
>
> PS: If you lost all your files (and whether or not you had them backed up
> or not), I'd like to copy part of your email (without using your name, but
> identifying the mail list, or maybe just saying "an unidentified
> developer's list" to the qna at linuxbasics.org mailing list (and maybe,
> sometime in the future, my local lug's list).
>
> I've been trying to advocate the separation of "real" data from
> "configuration data" in /home, and a few people don't even seem to tolerate
> my advocacy, claiming that only I (or a very small number of other people)
> have any need for such separation.  (I know there is some separation by
> virtue of the hidden vs. non-hidden files, and that I can back them up
> separately, but the notion of putting both types of files in the same
> directory, resorting to hiding one of the types of files, seems to me to be
> a real kludge, which could / should be corrected sometime when a convenient
> opportunity arises.
>
> > BTW: is there a list with open tasks for kde4 development?