Ok, now I've found out what btmp is. It belongs to root, but isn't readable 
through log viewer, although it's readable for others. I wonder if a chmod to 
640 makes the message in log viewer go away?
References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326028
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7600500
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/374320

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #326028
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326028

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System log viewer keeps displaying  error message "/var/log/btmp" The file is 
not a regular file or not a text file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401499
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