[26388] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.18: athena login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (You Zhou)
Wed Mar 9 10:17:04 2005
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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:16:24 -0500
From: You Zhou <yoz@mit.edu>
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System name: cheshire-cat.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.18 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/athena/bash
Window manager: sawfish
What's wrong:
When a user is near or over quota and logs in under X, there is very
little notification, consisting merely of a line in the Console. It's
the first line printed, after the version of the workstation, so if
the user isn't watching it, it scrolls away once other stuff gets
printed to the Console.
I've also seen a problem where a user goes over quota and gets three
alarming cryptic error dialogs from GNOME, mumbling something about
~/.gconf when the problem is actually that the user is over quota;
however, the 'over quota' message is much too subtle by comparison -
perhaps it is has already scrolled away - and can go unnoticed. (I was
trying to reproduce this error mode unsuccessfully; I suspect it may
be because I disabled nautilus.)
What should have happened:
The messages that a user is near, and especially over, quota should be
more prominent. Being over quota breaks a lot of things (GNOME,
Mozilla, Evolution, to name a few), and the first thing people should
notice is that they are over quota, not that <foo> stops working.
