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 gedit ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-system-log/%gconf.xml & gksudo gedit /root/.gconf/apps/gnome-system-log/%gconf.xml & 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780355 Title: gnome-system-log unable to open most log files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/780355/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
