bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/4/10 Chris Cheney <ccheney at ubuntu.com>:
> I often get bug reports from users due to their systems running out of
> disk space such as this bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359176
>
> "
> Dépaquetage de la mise à jour de openoffice.org-core ...
> dpkg : erreur de traitement de /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-core_1%3a2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb (--unpack) :
>  échec dans « buffer_write(fd) » (11, ret=-1) : backend dpkg-deb pendant « ./usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680lx.so »: Aucun espace disponible sur le périphérique
> "
>
> As dpkg-deb recognizes this issue it should not causing an error such
> that users can report these issues as bugs and instead should be telling
> the user they ran out of disk space in the gui. I am not sure what
> package I should be reporting this an issue on, is it a bug in dpkg,
> apt, update-manager or do all three need changes?
>
> Chris
>

Well I didn't have exactly the same series of events but here it goes...

I've been running the system on the verge of running out of space I
had less then 100Mb. And strange things started to happen as far as I
remember GTK failed to load themes so everything looked like X.org
widgets (everything gray and rectangular).

On top of that firefox was acting funny. It didn't load my bookmarks
nor my settings. When that happened I felt even more advantageous and
kept it running like that for a couple of days. It was fun cause
everything was really ugly.

To my surprise none of the data got corrupted and after I freedup some
space everything went back to normal. Since I'm a bit more advanced
user now, my 9GB in total for everything are not enough. Hence I'm
doing repartitioning with Jaunty release. I haven't tried Jaunty yet.

Overall I'd love to see a hint that I'm running out of space and that
certain things will start behaving different.

-- 
With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич