Bug 48904

Summary:	crashes saying out of disk space
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	cjb
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED NOT A BUG
Severity:	crash
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description cjb 2002-10-09 05:41:13 UTC

Version:           1.4.7 (using KDE 3.0.8 (KDE 3.1 beta2))
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-14

when i check my mail sometimes, it crashes and says out of disk space.  well, it doesn't actually crash but it says something about an error about being outta disk space and then it closes down.  i have tons of space left on all my partitions, what is causing this?  also, i get lots of errors about indexes being out of date.  it says to read the entry in the faq about this, but i couldn't find it.  even when the indexes are fixed, it only stays fixed for a couple of days before it happens again.

thanks for the help,
christopher

Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2002-10-09 22:20:42 UTC

Subject: Re:  New: crashes saying out of disk space

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 05:41, cjb@cs.utexas.edu wrote:
> when i check my mail sometimes, it crashes and says out of disk
> space.  well, it doesn't actually crash but it says something about
> an error about being outta disk space and then it closes down.  i
> have tons of space left on all my partitions, what is causing this?

A write failed. The most likely reason for a failed write is a full 
disk. If this isn't the case then there has to another problem why the 
write failed. KMail does immediately exit after a failed write to 
prevent the loss or corruption of messages.

> also, i get lots of errors about indexes being out of date.  it says
> to read the entry in the faq about this, but i couldn't find it. 

I haven't added this to the FAQ yet.

> even when the indexes are fixed, it only stays fixed for a couple of
> days before it happens again.

This is a rough outline of the FAQ: Is your home directory on an NFS 
mounted device? Are the clock of the NFS server and the clock of your 
local machine out of sync? If the answer to both questions is yes then 
you the problem will most likely go away when you sync the clocks of 
the NFS server and the NFS clients.

Regards,
Ingo

Comment 2 cjb 2002-10-09 22:29:32 UTC

Subject: Re:  crashes saying out of disk space

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 03:20 pm, you wrote:
> This is a rough outline of the FAQ: Is your home directory on an NFS
> mounted device? Are the clock of the NFS server and the clock of your
> local machine out of sync? If the answer to both questions is yes then
> you the problem will most likely go away when you sync the clocks of
> the NFS server and the NFS clients.

yes and yes...=)  how would you suggest syncing them?  having them both use 
ntp?

thanks,
christopher

Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2002-10-10 00:06:54 UTC

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 22:29, cjb@cs.utexas.edu wrote: 
> yes and yes...=3D)  how would you suggest syncing them?  having them 
> both use ntp? 
 
Exactly. 
 
Regards, 
Ingo

Comment 4 Ingo Klöcker 2002-10-20 00:48:52 UTC

Subject: Re:  New: crashes saying out of disk space

I close this bug report since the "out of disk space" errors (which 
actually seem to be "write failed" errors) are most likely caused by a 
broken NFS server/client or by other problems on your system.

Regards,
Ingo

Comment 5 jolo 2003-09-07 18:22:32 UTC

Hi, I