After some probing, I think the problem is with the name of the filter and not the regular expression. Putting a space in the name caused the application to crash. The solution is replace the space with a hyphen. This was not a problem with version 3.4.1 which I used previously.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-log in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1598535 Title: After entering filter it crashed and cannot restart Status in gnome-system-log package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I reported this on https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- system-log/+question/295921 but was asked to report it as a bug. I am using Ver. 3.9.90-4. When I entered filter for a single item (e.g. A) there is no problem. But after entering filter for mutiple item (e.g. A|B|C) it crashed and cannot restart. When I started from terminal I got the following message. (process:6957): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_boxed: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_BOXED (boxed_type)' failed (process:6957): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_class_install_property: assertion 'G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed (process:6957): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_boxed: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_BOXED (boxed_type)' failed (process:6957): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_class_install_property: assertion 'G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed (process:6957): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_boxed: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_BOXED (boxed_type)' failed (process:6957): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_class_install_property: assertion 'G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed (process:6957): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: object class 'GtkTextTag' has no property named 'paragraph-background-gdk' (process:6957): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: object class 'GtkTextTag' has no property named 'paragraph-background-gdk' (process:6957): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: object class 'GtkTextTag' has no property named 'paragraph-background-gdk' (gnome-system-log:6957): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: g_menu_item_set_detailed_action: Detailed action name 'win.filter_general protection' has invalid format Trace/breakpoint trap To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-log/+bug/1598535/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

