Bug 183316

Summary: gnome-system-log starts with an empty window
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: petrosyan
Component: gnome-utilsAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Fixed In Version: gnome-utils-2.16.0-1.fc6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description petrosyan 2006-02-28 05:51:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
According to documentation:
"The first time you start System Log Viewer, the application displays several
log files by default (such as /var/log/messages)."
This is not the case for me. gnome-system-log starts with an empty window and no
log files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-utils-2.13.93-1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
run gnome-system-log

Actual results:
no log files are displayed

Expected results:
Several log files by default (such as /var/log/messages) should be displayed.

Additional info:
Attaching a screenshot illustrating the problem.
Comment 1 petrosyan 2006-02-28 05:51:08 UTC 
Created attachment 125383 [details]
illustrating the bug
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2006-03-03 16:33:12 UTC 
gnome-system-log tries to detect that it is running for the first time,
by checking if the /apps/gnome-system-log/logfiles list in gconf is set,
and use a default list of log files if it is not. For some reason, this
seems to fail. A simple workaround might be to put the default list as 
the default value in the schema. 

Another issue is that gnome-system-log is running as root (it needs to 
in order to be able to read the logs), and thus uses roots gconf database,
which is broken.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2006-07-06 21:52:42 UTC 
Add to FC6Destop tracker
Comment 4 petrosyan 2006-07-08 18:34:52 UTC 
This bug has been fixed in gnome-utils-2.15.3-1, however it is still present in
Fedora Core 5. Should I close this bug?
Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-07-14 14:50:27 UTC 
Would you be interested in seeing the fix in an FC5 Update?  If not, then yes. 
Otherwise, make this bug block the "FC5Update" tracker.
Comment 6 petrosyan 2006-10-23 18:34:01 UTC 
this bug has been fixed in FC6