Bug 103094

Summary: Invalid disk space checks in startkde with FC2 and Ubuntu
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Ilpo Kantonen <ilpo>
Component: generalAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: ilpo
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ilpo Kantonen 2005-04-02 20:56:03 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

In script /usr/bin/starkde I found lines

   space_tmp=`df /tmp | xargs | cut -d" " -f11`
   homedir_mount=`df "$HOME" | xargs | cut -d" " -f8`

and then they are called in same script:

if [ $space_tmp -lt 50 ]; then     <- line 24
...
if [ $space_home -lt 25 ]; then   <- line 29

and that causes error lines in .xession-errors file in home directory:

/usr/bin/startkde: line 24: [: 6%: integer expression expected
/usr/bin/startkde: line 29: [: 40%: integer expression expected

I tried to execute space_tmp manually and that returned just 6%. Not an integer!
That occurred in Fedora Core 2 system and Ubuntu. Slackware linux works ok.
Add an check of operating system or change the space_tmp and space_home.

Maybe this is not bug of KDE but operating system.
Comment 1 Ilpo Kantonen 2005-04-02 21:58:30 UTC 
I added this bug also to bugzilla.redhat.com as bug #153202.
Comment 2 Ilpo Kantonen 2005-04-02 22:19:53 UTC 
Quick and dirty solution is to edit -f arguments in /usr/bin/startkde with FC2 and Ubuntu or such systems:

space_tmp=`df /tmp | xargs | cut -d" " -f10`
homedir_mount=`df "$HOME" | xargs | cut -d" " -f10`
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2005-04-03 12:16:01 UTC 
just for the reference: this is a patch not part of KDE