> The cause seems to be a user profile that has been upgraded from an older
> distro release, where the contents of /var/log/ haven't been inherited. It can
> also happen where multiple release installations share a common /home/$USER/.
However, I see this behavior with an entirely fresh install of jaunty into a test vm, where the user was entirely created from scratch.
In the upstream gnome bug report, TJ commented:
> The cause seems to be a user profile that has been upgraded from an older
> distro release, where the contents of /var/log/ haven't been inherited. It can
> also happen where multiple release installations share a common /home/$USER/.
However, I see this behavior with an entirely fresh install of jaunty into a test vm, where the user was entirely created from scratch.
'gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome- system- log/logfiles' reports:
[/var/ log/cups/ error_log, /var/log/ XFree86. 0.log,/ var/log/ Xorg.0. log,/var/ log/cron, /var/log/ maillog, /var/log/ secure, /var/log/ sys.log, /var/log/ messages, /var/log/ debug,/ var/log/ news/news. notice, /var/log/ news/news. err,/var/ log/news/ news.crit, /var/log/ mail.err, /var/log/ mail.warn, /var/log/ mail.info, /var/log/ user.log, /var/log/ mail.log, /var/log/ lpr.log, /var/log/ kern.log, /var/log/ daemon. log,/var/ log/syslog, /var/log/ auth.log]
which also misses useful stuff like the wpa_supplicant log.