Bug 320981 – gnome-system-log doesn't start

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Bug 320981 - gnome-system-log doesn't start


Summary:	gnome-system-log doesn't start


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318689

Product:	gnome-utils
Classification:	Deprecated
Component:	logview
Version:	2.12.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal major
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnome-utils Maintainers
QA Contact:	gnome-utils Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2005-11-08 15:44 UTC by Laurent Bouvet
Modified:	2005-11-13 08:48 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.11/2.12

Description Laurent Bouvet 2005-11-08 15:44:51 UTC

Please describe the problem:
System: FreeBSD 6.0 on x86, GNOME 2.12

starting gnome-system-log doesn't show anything


Steps to reproduce:
1. #gnome-system-log  and wait indefinitely
2. 
3. 


Actual results:
top shows cpu activity for seconds then 0%.

Expected results:
Open the log wiever window

Does this happen every time?
yes since 2.12 upgrade, on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 (even fresh install)

Other information:
Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-system-log'

(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New LWP 100089]
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Switching to LWP 100089]
0x28bc8833 in read () from /lib/libc.so.6

+ Trace 63955

Thread 1 (LWP 100089)

#0 read
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 read
from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#2 do_read
from /usr/X11R6/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so
#3 _gnome_vfs_handle_do_read
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#4 gnome_vfs_read_cancellable
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#5 gnome_vfs_read
from /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#6 isLogFile
#7 OpenLogFile
#8 logview_add_logs_from_names
#9 main

Comment 1 Vincent Noel 2005-11-08 17:06:54 UTC

This might be a duplicate of bug #318689.
Does this happen on first run, or was gnome-system-log working fine previously
and stopped working ?
Can you check the file /etc/syslog.conf to see if /dev/tty* appears in there ?

Comment 2 Laurent Bouvet 2005-11-09 06:52:00 UTC

That's right! The first line of /etc/syslog.conf is by default on FreeBSD:

*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit               /dev/console

Commenting this solved the problem.

May be this should be fixed...

Thank you Vincent.

Comment 3 Vincent Noel 2005-11-13 08:47:11 UTC

You're welcome :-)
This bug was fixed in the 2.12.1 update by Frederic Crozat.

Comment 4 Vincent Noel 2005-11-13 08:48:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 318689 ***