#6086 NORM -: Activities have been recently and ocasionally been telling "keep error: all changes will be lost".

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#6086: Activities have been recently and ocasionally been telling "keep error: all
changes will be lost".
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   Reporter:  HoboPrimate  |       Owner:  marco   
       Type:  defect       |      Status:  reopened
   Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
  Component:  sugar        |     Version:          
 Resolution:               |    Keywords:          
Next_action:  never set    |    Verified:  0       
  Blockedby:               |    Blocking:          
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Changes (by gnu):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * next_action:  => never set
  * resolution:  invalid =>


Comment:

 This happened to me in os2181.  It wouldn't restart from the XO menu.
 Finally I looked up that bug (#7350), closed my console on tty1, then hit
 restart in the XO again.  It hung for about half a minute, then gave me
 this message "Keep error", in a bar at the top of the Journal screen.

 The XO wasn't busy, didn't have lots of activities running.  I'd just
 reflashed, and the journal screen I'm looking at has just three things in
 it:  the web browser, terminal, and terminal.  There's plenty of disk
 space.

 Also, the wording of the "Keep error" message is really bad.  It gives the
 choice to "Don't stop" or to "Stop anyway".  I'm doing a system shutdown.
 Does "Stop anyway" mean shut the system down, or does it mean "stop the
 shutdown"?  Does "Don't stop" mean "Don't stop the system" or "Don't stop
 the shutdown"?

 And of course, the "keep error" message never actually says what the error
 is.  Was the disk full?  Were permissions wrong?  We'll never find out.

 I'm concerned about opening a terminal to get logfiles and stuff, since
 we're dealing with a heisenbug (you can't shut down if you have a terminal
 open).

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