gnome-system-log hangs then crashes with large messages file
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
| gnome-utils (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
My messages file grew to 940MB or so due to a wireless LAN module bug that was causing continuous kernel panics and the messages.0 file was 2 GB.
Then whenever I ran gnome-system-log, it then no longer worked: instead, it unexpectedly hung on startup, turned grey, and eventually died (this even after a fresh reboot).
I eventually stopped it from crashing by moving all the messages* files into another folder - but after I moved them back into /var/log, gnome-system-log no longer hangs or crashes when I run, so I can't reproduce the problem now. I did delete some other large files such as kern.log and syslog, so maybe these files were also relevant to the crash.
I have seen gnome-system-log hang several times like this over the last few weeks: previously it seemed to sort itself out (eventually).
I've attached an strace of gnome-system-log from when it hung (I force-closed it in this case rather than waiting until it crashed).
Version info:
Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic i386
gnome-system-tools 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
| Rocko (rockorequin) wrote | #1 |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gnome-system-tools: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Rocko (rockorequin) wrote | #3 |
| PessimistByNature (pessimistbynature) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
| Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
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