The bug report is for maverick, which continues to be supported into 2012. Even if the bug were fixed on natty it would persist on maverick, so there's no point in wasting time testing natty or oneiric betas.
** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674612 Title: gconfd trashes configuration when disk is full Status in “gconf” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gconf This isn't easy to reproduce, but has happened twice. Situation: 1. evolution starts (and with it gconfd) 2. disk is full 3. evolution is closed. 4. next time evolution is started, it starts the mail account setup wizard. The only remedy was to log out the affected user, shut down her gconfd, and restore the $HOME/.gconfd/ directory from backup. This leads to the conclusion that gconfd isn't sufficiently careful when rewriting configuration files such as $HOME/.gconfd/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml. gconfd SHOULD write to a temporary file, fsync() and close it, and only then rename it over the old file. If it did that, only the configuration /CHANGES/ would have been lost, not the whole configuration as such. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: libgconf2-4 2.31.91-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Nov 12 18:25:38 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gconf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/674612/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp