Closing assumed fixed. ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999526 Title: Cannot login from lightdm, /tmp is not writable Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Expected: Login via lightdm should successfully create a logged in Ubuntu session. What happened: A session is not created and I am returned to lightdm. When I reboot my laptop, the lightdm greeter allows me to enter my password, but when I press enter, the screen goes black, and I am shortly returned to the lightdm screen again. I changed to a new VT, logged in, and had a look at the lightdm log and the syslog. The syslog showed issues with pulseaudio writing to /tmp, and the lightdm log (possibly the xorg log) showed issues writing to /tmp as well. Looking at /tmp, I could see it was owned by root:root, and the permissions were 755. I tried running a `chmod 777 /tmp`, then switched back to lightdm and attempted a login. This time I was successfully logged in, with no further issues. If this bug was a one off, I would just ignore it and continue on, but this permissions problem (/tmp at 755) occurs at every boot now. I'm not sure what triggered this behaviour, but it only started occurring on Saturday 12th May 2012. Ubuntu release: 11.10 lightdm version: 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.6 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.33-generic 3.0.27 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue May 15 09:11:07 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/999526/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp