Bug#710106: goplay: Silently fail to start when the home directory is full

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package:  goplay
Version:  0.5-1.1
Severity: normal
User:     debian-edu at lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu

Dear Maintainer,

I discovered this when testing golearn after trying to run a program
that filled .xsession-errors with error messages and filling up the home
directory.

I tried to start golearn from the menu, but no program showed up.  Then
I tried the same from a terminal, and I got this output:


  % golearn
  No space left on device. Context:
      creating directory /home/pre/.popcon
  %

Please change golearn to show a popup message explaining this problem
when it fail to start, instead of failing silently for the GUI users
starting it from the menu.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages goplay depends on:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.45
ii  debtags           1.10.1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12    0.9.7.8
ii  libc6             2.13-38
ii  libept1.4.12      1.0.9
ii  libfltk1.1        1.1.10-14
ii  libgcc1           1:4.7.2-5
ii  libstdc++6        4.7.2-5
ii  libxapian22       1.2.12-2
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages goplay recommends:
ii  games-thumbnails  20120227

goplay suggests no packages.

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