Bug 2238985 - the system is almost unusable when low-disk-space pops up
Summary: the system is almost unusable when low-disk-space pops up
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: GNOME SIG Unassigned
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: RejectedFreezeException
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-09-14 16:28 UTC by lnie
Modified: 2024-02-14 11:46 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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screencast (570.82 KB, video/webm)
2023-09-14 16:30 UTC, lnie
no flags Details
journal (2.71 MB, text/plain)
2023-09-14 16:33 UTC, lnie
no flags Details
screencast2 (819.89 KB, video/webm)
2023-09-18 03:15 UTC, lnie
no flags Details

Description lnie 2023-09-14 16:28:32 UTC
Boot a f39 installer,create partitions including one btrfs volume and set mount point to /home,try to occupy all  the /home space,I used scp.
When the low-disk-space warning pops up,click the "Examine" button, gnome-disk will crash immediately,and gnome-shell will quit when you try to open some apps.
This only affects btrfs. ext4/xfs on lvm/stand partition is not affected.
I think we should set a higher slot number,so that users could have enough /home space to check what's going on,and handle it properly.
Not sure if this the right place to report,please feel free to reassign,thanks.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 lnie 2023-09-14 16:30:06 UTC
Created attachment 1988844 [details]
screencast

Comment 2 lnie 2023-09-14 16:33:03 UTC
Created attachment 1988845 [details]
journal

Comment 3 lnie 2023-09-15 10:22:43 UTC
Propose as a Final FE as it acts like a disaster,and may cause data loss.Besides,it kind of violates :https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Final_Release_Criteria#Default_application_functionality

Comment 4 lnie 2023-09-18 03:15:09 UTC
Created attachment 1989294 [details]
screencast2

Comment 5 lnie 2023-09-18 03:19:36 UTC
Checked on system with the newly Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-39-20230916.n.0.iso installed,still saw this problem.
As you can see from screencast2(you can watch it from 32s to save your time)I also found the work around (removing large file from non-gui terminal) doesn't work well,
the system stuck after you removed the file,and try to switch back to gui.I'm thinking maybe we should also consider this as a blocker?

Comment 6 Kalev Lember 2023-09-19 14:19:29 UTC
The low space notification comes from gnome-settings-daemon. Reassigning to gnome-settings-daemon.

Comment 7 Geoffrey Marr 2023-09-25 23:48:12 UTC
Discussed during the 2023-09-25 blocker review meeting: [0]

The decision to classify this bug as a "RejectedFreezeException (Final)" was made as we don't see how an FE would benefit versus a 0-day update here; typically if you're running out of disk space it would be after using the system for a while, not immediately after install.

[0] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2023-09-25/f39-blocker-review.2023-09-25-16.02.txt


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