KDE4: Home folder files deleted

[Louai Al-Khanji]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 16:15, Matthias Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I wanted to start contributing to KDE4, yesterday I decided to build a
> basic KDE4 environment. The building process was very fast (much better
> than with autotools!) and there were just a very few problems which were
> related to my system.
>
> But when I started X and startkde just a few minutes ago I got some error
> messages related to kio and I was left with a blank screen with only the
> background visible. So I killed the X server and when I tried to restart it
> I noticed that all files in my home folder (/home/kde-devel) with the
> exception of /home/kde-devel/kde/share/[applications,autostart] had been
> deleted :-(
>
> How does this come?
>
> Best regards
> Matthias
>
> BTW: is there a list with open tasks for kde4 development?

I had the same issue yesterday. Only instead of 
just /home/kde-devel/kde/share/[applications, autostart], the home dir was 
completely deleted, including all dotfiles and the trash folder, etc.

There were error messages complaining about kio_file, so I guess there is some 
bug there.

- Louai