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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

well, I'm inclined to consider it as a configuration issue though
lightdm should probably not rely on the environment to be able to start
its greeter

** Summary changed:

- lightdm doesn't find unity-greeter
+ lightdm doesn't find unity-greeter with sbin is not in the environment PATH

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Summary changed:

- lightdm doesn't find unity-greeter with sbin is not in the environment PATH
+ lightdm doesn't find unity-greeter when sbin is not in the environment PATH

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Title:
  lightdm doesn't find unity-greeter when sbin is not in the environment
  PATH

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading to 11.10 today, the computer didn't start anymore.
  After the "ubuntu loading screen" with the dots, the display reverted
  to a text screen, ending in some information about "battery status".

  After logging in on tty1, I could start gdm as a workaround.

  The problem is twofold. First, /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log (and I think /var/log/lighdm/lightdm.log as well) complained about insufficient privileges to create /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log. After `chown lightdm /var/log/lightdm" said file was created (when restarting lightdm) containing the single line
  exec: 33: unity-greeter: not found

  If this happened to a new user, they would be lost!

  PS: unity-greeter is installed to /usr/sbin/, but that is not in the
  path apparently)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Oct 17 14:08:04 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (0 days ago)

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