GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 637360
gnome-system-log aborts when filters are applied to big log files
Last modified: 2011-06-27 06:34:06 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
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.