Bug 194806

Summary:	Let Plasma load with no free space
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Lukas <1lukas1>
Component:	Startup process	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, kdm-bugs-null, nate, shafff
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424364
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/e2cc02b75eec6b69a92a5469b4e8611d3957ef62	Version Fixed In:	6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

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!

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 21:39:11 UTC

We've removed these sanity checks that can prevent login, because they weren't really gaining anything in the sanity department. Done by David Redondo with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/e2cc02b75eec6b69a92a5469b4e8611d3957ef62 for Plasma 6.3.0!