Subject: Re: rh7.2 prerelease
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
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Date: 09 Nov 2001 10:10:57 -0600
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Ok, just to recap and be certain about this...

Your config files at one point are fine, and then, without rebooting,
they suddenly contain only nulls?

I'm not sure if this might have anything to do with it, but is the
laptop suspending in the interim?

-Eric

On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 09:40, avijit@cs.cornell.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Andrew Klaassen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:42:04AM -0500,
> > Avijit Ghosh wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to be having weird issues w/ any
> > > users .kde/share/config/* files sometimes arbitrarily turning
> > > into
> > >
> > > ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> >
> > Those are strings of null bytes.  You haven't been turning off
> > the power without a proper shutdown, have you?
> 
> 	No not at all it reboots properly as well (no recovery) so i dont
> think the shutdown mechanism is askew
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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.