[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 129269] Endless auto-save: Data lost

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129269

--- Comment #1 from Kevin Knerr <ld.barthel at gmail.com> ---
Arch Linux, libreoffice-fresh 6.3.4-1

I've also experienced this issue twice in the past 2 weeks with an ~825K .ods
file. (The first version of this file was created in Sep 2018 and I did not
experience this issue until Jan 23, 2020.)

I believe I've identified the culprit on my system. 2 weeks ago, I re-enabled a
thumbnail maintenance cron job which runs weekly. What I didn't realize is that
/tmp was filling with 0-byte magick-*.pam files and magick-* symlinks as a
result of this script.

When I deleted these 0-byte files, Calc completed an autosave and stopped
looping.

I didn't think to get a count of the 0-byte files, but I strongly suspect the
issue is a lack of available inodes in /tmp, since LO also uses /tmp while
creating the auto-save.

I'm not sure it's within the scope of LO, but perhaps the autosave code should
exit and warn the user if LO is unable to create the necessary files in /tmp?

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