Gnome 3 log file viewer crashes on file open

Question

Hi everyone,
    I'm experiencing an annoying issue in which the system log file viewer crashes when I load certain log files.  For example, if I go to file>open>crond.log, the viewer will crash. The same occurs with errors.log, kernel.log, pm-suspend.log, and others on a somewhat inconsistent basis.   When I relaunch the program, crond.log (or any of the other files in question) is open and can be viewed without a problem. 
After I initially set up the system, I ran into permissions problems when trying to open a number of log files.  I added my user to the "log" group and then had to manually chmod the /var/log/ directory to resolve those issues.   The crash seems to occur on the log files that were originally restricted.  It does appear that some of the log files are still in the "root" group as opposed to the "log" group.
I'm running Arch 64-bit with Gnome 3.0 (native install, not upgrade).   Has anyone else experienced this problem?  I'm somewhat of a novice with permissions so perhaps that's to blame. Still, it doesn't seem like the viewer should crash but then be able to open the file.
Output of ls -l /var/log:
total 34244
-rw-r----- 1 root log 12691 May 15 20:44 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 15189 May 15 10:31 auth.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 44949 May 8 09:01 auth.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 70857 May 6 18:01 auth.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11577 May 15 20:44 boot
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 22 21:09 btmp
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 15 14:50 ConsoleKit
-rw-r----- 1 root log 362 May 15 15:01 crond.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1796 May 15 14:50 crond.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1440 May 8 09:32 crond.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 4441 May 6 18:10 crond.log.3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 14:50 cups
-rw-r----- 1 root log 44287 May 15 20:44 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 96821 May 15 14:41 daemon.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 128416 May 8 08:27 daemon.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 445951 May 6 17:14 daemon.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48494 May 15 20:44 dmesg.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 6334 May 15 20:57 errors.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 10912 May 15 10:30 errors.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 4098198 May 7 18:36 errors.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 28279 May 6 17:23 errors.log.3
-rw-r----- 1 root log 292780 May 15 20:57 everything.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 352142 May 15 14:50 everything.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 8504549 May 8 09:32 everything.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 2329358 May 6 18:10 everything.log.3
-rw------- 1 root root 32064 May 8 08:28 faillog
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 May 15 20:44 gdm
-rw-r----- 1 root log 237511 May 15 20:45 kernel.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 244356 May 15 14:41 kernel.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 8366407 May 8 08:09 kernel.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1781951 May 6 17:23 kernel.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292584 May 8 08:28 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 root log 195079 May 15 20:57 messages.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 247865 May 15 14:41 messages.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 4231866 May 8 09:29 messages.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1620382 May 6 17:54 messages.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12448 May 15 20:45 ntp.log
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 06:08 old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 13 23:47 PackageKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113304 May 15 17:09 pacman.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203599 May 15 20:44 pm-powersave.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289619 May 15 20:36 pm-suspend.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 701 May 15 20:44 syslog.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 619 May 15 10:00 syslog.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1387 May 7 18:18 syslog.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 5309 May 6 17:14 syslog.log.3
-rw-r----- 1 root log 9697 May 15 20:57 user.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 7773 May 15 10:31 user.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 6344 May 8 08:27 user.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 90189 May 6 17:14 user.log.3
-rw-r----- 1 root log 0 May 15 14:50 uucp.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 0 May 8 09:32 uucp.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 0 May 6 18:10 uucp.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Apr 25 01:11 uucp.log.3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 167424 May 15 20:57 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 348288 May 6 17:14 wtmp.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38995 May 15 20:44 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40721 May 15 20:36 Xorg.0.log.old

Answer 1

w201 wrote:Dconf editor has completly vanished from my activities overview, well at least the GUI frontend, pacman shows that it's installed. Another function that seems to be gone in 3.16 is the ability to search for files from the activities overview!! I really hope that gets fixed soon :-(
reinstalling dconf-editor fixed that issue for me