From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: I tried to start System Logs from Gnome menu without success. Then I tried to launch directly the binary /usr/bin/redhat-logviewer and I understood something might be wrong, see below in additional info what I got on the terminal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to start /usr/bin/redhat-logviewer 2. 3. Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-logviewer/redhat-logviewer.py", line 30, in ? import LogViewerGui File "/usr/share/redhat-logviewer/LogViewerGui.py", line 123, in ? sysClass = LogFileClass.LogFileClass("SYSLOG") File "/usr/share/redhat-logviewer/LogFileClass.py", line 69, in __init__ self.read_log(self.prefName) File "/usr/share/redhat-logviewer/LogFileClass.py", line 119, in read_log self.buffer.insert_into_buffer_at_offset(iter, line) File "/usr/share/redhat-logviewer/LogBuffer.py", line 57, in insert_into_buffer_at_offset self.insert(iter, unicode(new_line,'utf-8'), -1) UnicodeError: UTF-8 decoding error: unexpected code byte
The same for me. One possible reason are the timestamps in log messages. They are for some reason localized and get munged along the way, at least for LANG=cs_CZ.utf8.
This is fixed in the latest rawhide version. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71876 ***