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gaim package

gaim 2.0beta6: all chat logs silenty deleted!

Bug #88649 reported by Fionn
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gaim (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gaim

During the upgrade from beta5 to beta6 or shortly after, some bug must have cause the complete deletion of all files and subdiretories in my .gaim folder. This is a potentially disastrous bug. I found out two or three days later merely by chance because I was searching for an URL I sent to someone the other week and nothing was found anymore. Thank god I had a backup and lost only a few days of log. Not everybody might be lucky like me.

I am absolutely sure to not have deleted the files myself because prior to the all-problematic upgrade to 2.0beta6 (see also bug 88647) I never opened the .gaim folder or even messed around there in any way.

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Fionn (fbe) wrote :

CORRECTION: Sorry, there is a typo in the original report:

All files and subdirectories in the ".gaim/logs/" Folder have been deleted! Nothing else. (As if that werent enough)

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Mark Doliner (thekingant) wrote :

I don't believe that's possible. There's not a single call to rmdir() in the Gaim codebase, so I don't see how any directories could have been deleted. There are a few calls to unlink(), but we would have had to screw up pretty badly to write code that accidentally recursed through your logs directory and deleted everything.

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Fionn (fbe) wrote :

well... The logs definitely were gone. All of them. And I had no other data loss whatsoever, so I'd dare say it cant have been a disk or fs fault.
The only other software that messes around in this place would probably be the beagle indexer. As buggy as beagle seems to be, I wouldnt be too surprised. On the other hand there are a lot of potentially buggy gaim plugins, too.
Maybe it even has something to do with the protocol name change I mentioned in bug #88647.

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote :

I agree with Mark. There's no way this was Gaim.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Marking rejected, not likely a gaim problem

Changed in gaim:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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