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Bug 655657 - /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old "The file is not a regular file or not a text file"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old "The file is not a regular file or not a text file"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-system-log
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-system-log-maint
gnome-system-log-maint
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-30 21:02 UTC by sam_
Modified: 2020-09-26 09:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Screenshot of attempt to open Xorg.0.log.old (520.73 KB, image/png)
2011-07-30 21:02 UTC, sam_ 		Details

Description sam_ 2011-07-30 21:02:35 UTC 
Created attachment 192924 [details]
Screenshot of attempt to open Xorg.0.log.old

In gnome-system-log go to file -> open, browse to /var/log and open Xorg.0.log.old.
System log viewer displays the message:
Can't open /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
"The file is not a regular file or not a text file"

Expected.
Don't complain about text files when they actually are text files and can be opened by e.g. gedit.

First reported there.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/818641
Comment 1 André Klapper 2020-09-26 09:41:06 UTC 
gnome-system-log is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than four years ago. Its codebase has been archived at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-system-log/

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project
to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the
responsibility for active development again.