Bug 194806

Summary: Let Plasma load with no free space
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Lukas <1lukas1>
Component: Startup processAssignee: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, kdm-bugs-null, nate, shafff
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.27.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424364
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Description Lukas 2009-06-01 00:40:31 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.85)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I recently have let my PC for night running some torrents. In the morning simply shut down it. When I came back home and tried to bootup, I go an error in KDM?, that there is no free space left on hdd, and kde couldn't load up. i had to delete some files via console. Not very pleasant way to get to DE.
Yes, Its my fault to leave pc with 0 space, but many users could get int to the same situation.

My suggestion would be to create an dummy lets say 20mb size file in .kde4 folder, and if user runs out of space just delete itand make some room, boot kde and tell user he is out of space with big error signs etc. :)
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2009-10-25 15:12:56 UTC 
somewhat related to bug 81653 as well.
Comment 2 Nick Shaforostoff 2011-03-25 14:00:43 UTC 
there also should be a way to protect the system from filling up in the fitst place: bug 243160
Comment 3 Nick Shaforostoff 2011-12-12 12:15:45 UTC 
another related bug is 79943
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2023-04-27 19:41:33 UTC 
Makes sense, since otherwise you can't log in to clear out some space!