After further investigation, I found the source of my issue. Basically the / directory had the wrong ownership. Not sure how I did that but it seemed to have the side-effect of making systemd-tmpfiles not create directories as it should.
I saw messages like this in the log that clued me in. May 09 21:11:49 x1 systemd-tmpfiles[1665]: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by charles) → /tmp (owned by root) during canonicalization of /tmp. After a chown, ls -ld / now shows ownership by root:root correctly and I no longer get errors in the log. Note this file is what creates the directories root@x1:~# cat /lib/tmpfiles.d/x11.conf # This file is part of systemd. # # systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # See tmpfiles.d(5) for details # Make sure these are created by default so that nobody else can # or empty them at startup D! /tmp/.X11-unix 1777 root root 10d D! /tmp/.ICE-unix 1777 root root 10d D! /tmp/.XIM-unix 1777 root root 10d D! /tmp/.font-unix 1777 root root 10d D! /tmp/.Test-unix 1777 root root 10d # Unlink the X11 lock files r! /tmp/.X[0-9]*-lock And this helped me figure out the issue journalctl -xe -u systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service Thanks for looking into it, sorry for the bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972749 Title: Logging into a second Wayland session/user doesn't work [Failed to start X Wayland: Wrong ownership for directory "/tmp/.X11-unix"] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1972749/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
