Bug 424364

Summary:	When Plasma fails to start because $HOME is out of space, error message about this should be shown but isn't
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	David <david.cortes.rivera>
Component:	Startup process	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, kde, nate, nicolas.fella, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.17.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194806 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420646
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/e2cc02b75eec6b69a92a5469b4e8611d3957ef62	Version Fixed In:	6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description David 2020-07-18 08:12:29 UTC

SUMMARY
If I run out of disk space, KDE will not start, and will instead get stuck on the loading window after the kernel is started, without any indication of what's wrong. Took me some time to figure out my disk was full and had to delete files by switching to Ctrl+Shift+F<something> to a terminal.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use all space in disk.
2. Restart computer.

OBSERVED RESULT
Gets stuck in the KDE splash screen forever.

EXPECTED RESULT
Should throw an error saying that it cannot start because the disk is full.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma:
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70
Qt Version: 5.12.5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-04-27 19:46:35 UTC

We do have this:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/ksmserver/main.cpp#L90

So maybe it's not working?

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 21:39:12 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!