Bug#441002: clicking on System Log in the Applications->System menu makes cpu go to 100% and consumes all memory

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 441002 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359406
thanks

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 21:05 -0400, Brent S. Elmer, Ph.D. wrote:
> Clicking on System Log in the gnome Applications->System menu make the
> cpu usage go to 100% and gradually all memory is consumed.
> This locks up the system and nothing fixes it accept hard booting the
> computer.  Ctl-Alt-F1 won't even work to go to a login session.

Hi,

It sounds like one of your log files have grown too big, but
gnome-system-log should ideally be able to handle this.

You can try to figure out which one of the log files it is by using;

        gconftool --get /apps/gnome-system-log/logfile

and then examine the log files with ls -lh 

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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