GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 697790
crash when closing log files in rapid succession
Last modified: 2013-04-11 21:39:44 UTC
To see the problem: 1. Open enough log files that at least 10 of them are listed in the left-hand column. (One easy way to get there is to close all log files, then restart gnome-system-log; it will then display all files in /var/log there.) 2. Select the first log file. 3. Press Ctrl+W repeatedly to close log files in rapid succession. gnome-system-log will crash with a slew of error messages beginning with this: (gnome-system-log:17351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed This doesn't happen when you close log files slowly, so presumably there's a race condition in there somewhere.
Yes Here the BT gnome-system-log:ERROR:logview-log.c:854:logview_log_get_timestamp: assertion failed: (LOGVIEW_IS_LOG (log)) Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0xb7735424 in ?? () (gdb) bt full
+ Trace 231768
Indeed; there were a number of bugs contributing to this crash. I pushed a series of fixes to git master now, thanks for the report.