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Bug 637360 - gnome-system-log aborts when filters are applied to big log files
gnome-system-log aborts when filters are applied to big log files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-utils
Classification: Deprecated
Component: logview
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-utils Maintainers
gnome-utils Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-16 00:57 UTC by Oliver Joos
Modified: 2011-06-27 06:34 UTC
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Description Oliver Joos 2010-12-16 00:57:54 UTC 
I can reproduce a crash of gnome-system-log 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 (Lucid):

1. start gnome-system-log and it shows (a quite big) /var/log/messages
2. activate a simple user-defined filter, e.g. to match "EE" (without the quotes)
3. enable "Show matches only"
=> it aborts:

../~$ gnome-system-log

(gnome-system-log:4880): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtktextbtree.c:4019: byte index off the end of the line

Gtk-ERROR **: Byte index 227444 is off the end of the line
aborting...
Aborted
../~$


If I do this with /var/log/lpr or other small log files, it works as expected. With big files like messages or syslog it crashes. My /var/log/message is 2.6 MByte.

This bug report has been moved from downstream http://launchpad.net/bugs/638018
Comment 1 Oliver Joos 2011-06-27 06:34:06 UTC 
With gnome-system-log 2.32.0 (in Ubuntu 11.04) I was not able to reproduce this bug anymore. I checked it with a /var/log/syslog of 60MB. Seems to be solved.