This is fixed, at least with Feisty. I'm not sure its upstream or a local patch .. but I did post a comment on the bugzilla, to remember them to put it on fixed it they fixed this.
** Changed in: gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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messages in systemlog are too wide to read, but there is no horizontal scrollbar
https://launchpad.net/bugs/37877
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