Bug#754485: gnome-system-log: Fails to stay up-to-date when left open for a few hours

[David Z]

Package: gnome-system-log
Version: 3.4.1-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I opened the Log File Viewer as I often do, and reviewed some log entries using
a custom filter for the syslog, set to show only matching entries and highlight
their background with a custom color. I left the viewer open in that state
overnight.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

When I returned to the log viewer in the morning, I noticed that there were no
new entries in the log displayed since about the time that I left it the
previous night. Feeling that this wasn't right, I disabled the filter to view
all entries, and tried selecting some specific dates for the syslog to view,
but I was unable to get the viewer to show any entries after the time that I
stopped using the program the previous night.

When I closed and re-opened the log viewer, numerous entries after that time
were present and viewable.

I suspect that this might be a result of the viewer losing focus, or possibly
being minimized?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-system-log depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-38+deb7u3
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-7
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  policykit-1                                  0.105-3
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

gnome-system-log recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-system-log suggests:
ii  yelp  3.4.2-1+b1

-- no debconf information