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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
** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Status: Incomplete
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gnome-system-log hangs then crashes with large messages file
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/293953
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