The problem here is that a system restoration was made from a backup, and the two OS versions were different. In the process, the default ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-system-log/%gconf.xml file was overwritten with an older version. Apparently, the 10.10 log files were named a little differently. Not having easy recourse to the default file settings (and also not wanting to necessarily set the file completely to default settings), I did the following:
Having both versions of the file open in the editor, I copied root's listing of which files to open and pasted them over the settings in my .xml file. A reboot later, and all is well.
The problem here is that a system restoration was made from a backup, and the two OS versions were different. In the process, the default ~/.gconf/ apps/gnome- system- log/%gconf. xml file was overwritten with an older version. Apparently, the 10.10 log files were named a little differently. Not having easy recourse to the default file settings (and also not wanting to necessarily set the file completely to default settings), I did the following:
cp ~/.gconf/ apps/gnome- system- log/%gconf. xml ~/.gconf/ apps/gnome- system- log/oldgconf. xml apps/gnome- system- log/%gconf. xml & gconf/apps/ gnome-system- log/%gconf. xml &
gedit ~/.gconf/
gksudo gedit /root/.
Having both versions of the file open in the editor, I copied root's listing of which files to open and pasted them over the settings in my .xml file. A reboot later, and all is well.
This should be re-evaluated as NOTABUG.