Package: kaboom Version: 1.1.1 Severity: grave Hi, kaboom just caused serious data loss. I have a brand-new install of Debian sid. I installed kde4 (kde-standard metapackage). I start kdm, and on the first run of kde4, kaboom does not run. I customized the settings, turned on desktop effects, etc.
I then rebooted. On the second start of kde4, kaboom ran. It explicitly said that existing kde4 settings would be unchanged. I told it to not backup KDE3 data and to not perform any migration. Instead, it deleted ALL my existing KDE4 settings. KDE3 was never installed on this system. There was no reason for kaboom to ever run. ..kaboom.log is attached. Regards, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kaboom depends on: ii libc6 2.9-24 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.2-1 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.2-1 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 kaboom recommends no packages. kaboom suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
---- Kaboom Settings Dump ---- kdehome - "/home/dmr/.kde" - exists?: YES kde4home - "/home/dmr/.kde4" - exists?: NO kde3backup - "/home/dmr/kde3-backup" - exists?: NO kaboom stamp - "/home/dmr/.local/kaboom" - exists?: NO kaboom log - "/home/dmr/.kaboom.log" ---- -------------------- ---- loading translation failed Screen geometry: QRect(0,0 1440x900) freeDirSpace "/home/dmr" 238755721216 calculateDirSize "/home/dmr/.kde" 14238044 NOBACKUP operation: do recursive rm of .kde dir if exists calculateDirSize "/home/dmr/.kde" 14238044