gnome-system-log aborts when filter are applied to big log files

[Oliver Joos]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

I can reproduce a crash of gnome-system-log 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 (Lucid):

1. start gnome-system-log and it shows (a quite big) /var/log/messages
2. activate a simple user-defined filter, e.g. to match "EE" (without the quotes)
3. enable "Show matches only"
=> it aborts:

../~$ gnome-system-log

(gnome-system-log:4880): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtktextbtree.c:4019: byte index off the end of the line

Gtk-ERROR **: Byte index 227444 is off the end of the line
aborting...
Aborted
../~$

If I do this with /var/log/lpr or other small log files, it works as expected. With big files like messages or syslog it crashes. My /var/log/message is 2.6 MByte.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-utils 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 14 14:32:28 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Ok, I reported it upstream.

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

In Natty this bug seems to have gone. I was not able to reproduce it even with a /var/log/syslog of 60MB.

@Pedro: did you triage it in Lucid?

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

As the comments have indicated, updates have solved this issue.

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