Bug#484298: epiphany-browser: UI locks up when out of disk space

[Josselin Mouette]

forcemerge 375565 484298
thanks

Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 16:09 +0200, Andreas Bombe a écrit :
> Package: epiphany-browser
> Version: 2.22.1.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> My home directory filled up and epiphany's user interface completely
> locked up while it was trying and failing to write the cookie file.  The
> problem is that it gives no indication of what went wrong.
> 
> A normal user would probably kill the program and restart it, likely
> running into the same problem again.  I only figured out what went wrong
> by stracing the process (it retries the writes about every second on
> ENOSPC failure).

According to upstream developers this issue lies in the gecko code which
doesn’t do the proper error checking.

It would be interesting to know whether this still happens with gecko
1.9, using epiphany 2.22.2-2.

Thanks,
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