I was about to when I accidentally fixed the problem. I'll do one if I can reproduce it again.
I was hoping the strace might help in seeing what was causing the temporary freeze - normally gnome-system-log starts up and fills its text windows pretty fast, and the strace I got from the hang looked quite different from a normal one. -- gnome-system-log hangs then crashes with large messages file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293953 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs