Bug 82801
| Summary: | Gnome fails to report quota excess to user in a timely manner | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Scott R. Godin <rhbugzilla> | ||||
| Component: | quota | Assignee: | Steve Dickson <steved> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mitr | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-10-18 14:52:58 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 89612 [details]
stuff from /var/log/messages detailing extent of problem
as you can see, the damage was going on for some time before the reason for the
problem was discovered. the user had no clue what was going on other than
suddenly the panel went away and nothing else was working properly.
user could not even log-out due to absence of log-out option in right-click
menu when you click on the desktop :P (<-- strongly recommended addition to
gnome!)
as you can see, an inordinate amount of stuff was generated by gconfd to /var/log/messages in a matter of seconds, from [22:54:06 - 22:54:36], and from [23:03:03 - 23:07:44] (this last being the most extreme) I find it hard to believe that no mechanism exists whereby the quota excess might be reported to the end-user via a dialog-box. also, user received no e-mail regarding the excess. This was not a user that was familiar with using the Terminal/console and would not have thought to check same for further information. I've since updated my MOTD to forewarn them, but yeesh, the SYSTEM should do this. :) Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. Note that any bug still open against Red Hat Linux on will be closed as 'CANTFIX' on September 30, 2006. Thanks again for your help. Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: set up a few users on the system and applied a 40MB quota to each user. each user has access to X, and Mozilla via the new Gnome/KDE setup. Most users are not *really* aware of how different linux is from windows :-) (nor should they really NEED to be just to web-browse) However, the default Cache limit for Moz, is 50MB. One user exceeded the 45MB Hard limit, and gnome panel promptly crashed.. reloading gnome-panel and trying to log-out subsequently only results in the exit of gnome-panel. (unable to update authentication tokens due to quota excess apparently) It took me a bit to figure out what was the excess problem -- the user had downloaded a few files, but none seemed excessive. A further du -h on his account showed the size of the cache to be excessive, and clearing and and setting it lower solved the problem. HOWEVER, what I would have preferred to see was a dialog box popping up in Gnome advising the user that they were out of disk space (similar to how the same is reported under MacOS since forever) and that some files and caches would need to be cleaned up in order to continue. This problem also had the side effect of filling /var/log/messages with hundreds of repeat messages. *sigh* (attached for your perusal and amusement) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.set user quotas to 40MB with a Hard limit of 45MB 2.browse lots of pages with Mozilla until quota exceeded 3.watch panel crash and /var/log/messages fill, with no actual dialog-box notification to user that they are close to (much less already HAVE) exceeding their limits Actual Results: see attached Expected Results: dialog box warning user they are about to (or have) exceeded their limits set by quota. Additional info: