gnome-system-log reports various files not found in Karmic when upgraded from Jaunty

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When I start gnome-system-log via System --> Administration --> Log file viewer (or run gnome-system-log from the terminal) I get various file not found errors in the application:

Could not open the following files:
/var/log/auth.log.0: Error stating file '/var/log/auth.log.0': No such file or directory
/var/log/btmp: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/var/log/daemon.log.0: Error stating file '/var/log/daemon.log.0': No such file or directory
/var/log/debug.0: Error stating file '/var/log/debug.0': No such file or directory
/var/log/syslog.0: Error stating file '/var/log/syslog.0': No such file or directory
/var/log/user.log.0: Error stating file '/var/log/user.log.0': No such file or directory
/var/log/messages.0: Error stating file '/var/log/messages.0': No such file or directory
/var/log/kern.log.0: Error stating file '/var/log/kern.log.0': No such file or directory

The files are in fact non existent.
This doesn't happen when I run "gksudo gome-system-log", it also doesn't happen on fresh Karmic installs (only if upgraded from Jaunty)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 13 04:12:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmci vmmon nvidia
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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Huh, I don't get it, why isn't this a bug? Log file viewer is throwing errors about files it expects to be there while it shouldn't expect them (so it shouldn't throw errors).
A clean install of Karmic does not throw these errors (even if the files are not there), an upgraded install of Karmic (from Jaunty) does throw these errors.

"Log file viewer should not throw errors about missing files it should not expect" is not a question.
It's not a Support request, Feature and policy discussion, Development idea as far as I can tell

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

anyways, low priority and dup of bug 318689

[John Franklin (hondaman-nc)]

On 12.04 open dconf-editor and go to org.gnome.gnome-system-log, logfiles are defined here.