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** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: system-cleaner
+ system-cleaner throws exception when syslog isn't installed/running.
  
- system-cleaner does not start. this is what's shown in the terminal:
- 
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ system-cleaner-gtk 
- Traceback (most recent call last):
-   File "/usr/bin/system-cleaner-gtk", line 28, in <module>
-     app.run(systemcleaner.GtkUserInterface)
-   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/systemcleaner/app.py", line 54, in 
run
-     setup_logging()
-   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/systemcleaner/app.py", line 38, in 
setup_logging
-     handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler("/dev/log")
-   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 594, in __init__
-     self._connect_unixsocket(address)
-   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 609, in 
_connect_unixsocket
-     self.socket.connect(address)
-   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
- socket.error: (2, 'No such file or directory')
- 
- ProblemType: Crash
- Architecture: i386
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
- ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/system-cleaner-gtk
- InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
- Package: system-cleaner-gtk 1.8-0ubuntu1
- PackageArchitecture: all
- ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
- ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/system-cleaner-gtk
- ProcEnviron:
-  
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/lib
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
- PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/system-cleaner-gtk']
- SourcePackage: system-cleaner
- Title: system-cleaner-gtk crashed with error in connect()
- Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686
- UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev 
vboxusers video
+ Either it should handle the abscence of the /dev/log socket gracefully
+ (by reverting to console logging only?) or it should depend on syslogds
+ providing /dev/log.

** Summary changed:

- system-cleaner-gtk crashed with error in connect()
+ throws exception when syslog isn't installed/running

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throws exception when syslog isn't installed/running
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274970
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