Subject: Re: Weirdest crash ever... :)
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/28/2002 09:43:28
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Peter Seebach wrote:
> So, my laptop crashed.  And now, Mozilla won't remember certain
> preferences; it always starts up with the sidebar, for instance.  It
> used to not do this.
>
> Can anyone suggest a likely explanation for how a crash could cause this?
> It did wipe out my bookmarks.html file (inexplicably enough).

I've seen this happen when I've run out of disk space...
Mozilla/KDE2/whatever tries to write its config, runs out of space, and I
end up with a bunch of 0-length config files.

Jared