Well of all the apps I had jnstalled that logged to /var/log/ subdirectory only gdm and apt failed to recreate their chosen subdir on next launch and gdm was the only one that failed to launch because of it. So patching gdm to be consistent with all the other apps included in a default ubuntu install seems a fair proposal to me. As far as I'm concerned /var/log should be as throwaway a dir as /var/tmp and the cache dirs for a user.
On 27 Jul 2009, at 13:31, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Right but should the init scripts all try to workaround every way > users > might have screwed their install? It would add complexity and bugs > only > to try to workaround users touching things they should not > > ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Triaged > > -- > gdm fails to start if /var/log/gdm does not exist > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405227 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. -- gdm fails to start if /var/log/gdm does not exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405227 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
