Can no longer save transactions!

[Michael C. Smith]

On 2011-07-11 03:56, Colin Law wrote:
> On 11 July 2011 01:51, Michael C. Smith<michael.c.smith at alumni.cmu.edu>  wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with GnuCash 2.2.9 (built from r17949M on 2010-03-23)
>> running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and up to date with patches).
>>
>> Starting this afternoon, I can no longer save any new transactions.  I can
>> create them in the registers, click "save" (and have the "save" progress bar
>> work to completion), but when I go to quit GnuCash, I get a warning dialog
>> (with 3 buttons) that I should save my work before exiting (or loose the
>> transactions entered over the previous few minutes).  When I click "save" in
>> that dialog, it takes a few moments and then I'm presented with a two button
>> dialog giving me the choice of saving or continuing (and loosing my
>> transactions).  Saving takes a few more moments before bringing be back to
>> the two-button dialog.  The only way to terminate the "loop" is to chose to
>> loose the transactions.
> Have you somehow made the accounts file read only?  If you right click
> the accounts file in nautilus (the file browser), select properties
> and then Permissions you should see yourself as the Owner and Read and
> Write for the Access permissions for yourself.
>
> Colin
Saving under a different file name has no effect.

(Goes away and gets smarter...)

I'm running out of disc space on that partition, apparently the act of 
saving a file consumes the remainder of the free disc space, but the 
inability to complete the save isn't being reported as an error.

Should this be reported as a bug?

Thanks for your assistance!

Regards,

Mike