Ok, your config doesn't show anything weird "WARNING: Failed to open log file /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log: Permission denied" is an issue happening for everybody it seems and likely has to do with some of the privilege drops fixes from before Oneiric, it's worth a new bug if nobody opened one yet but it's not what is breaking your system
your lightdm.log has "[+2.52s] DEBUG: Launching process 13148: /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session 'unity-greeter' [+2.52s] WARNING: Failed to open log file /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log: Permission denied [+2.52s] DEBUG: pam_setcred(0x230e7e0, PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED) -> 0 (Success) [+2.52s] DEBUG: PAM returns environment 'TH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANGUAGE=de_DE:en LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8' [+2.54s] DEBUG: Process 13148 exited with return value 0" Which is weird, notices that it starts at "TH=..." on my log I get "DEBUG: PAM returns environment 'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8'" so it seems somewhat you pam environment get mangled, that might be a different issues from the ones on this bug, could you restart your box in its current state and open a new bug using "ubuntu-bug lightdm", it should attach your log infos etc what do you have in /etc/environment? The "TH=" is weird, it should b "PATH="... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804171 Title: After latest upgrade of oneiric, Lightdm or Xserver not working Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: It seems that, after last upgrade of Oneiric made one hour ago, either Xserver or lightdm doesn't work anymore. Before the login screen Ubuntu prints out some state messages. The last one is "Checking battery state" (mine it is not a portable PC) I have to press Alt+F1, I logged in and wrote "startx". Gnome3 says "Failed to load session "gnome-fallback"" (my pc doesn't support neither Gnome-shell nor Unity3D) and pressing the only button Log Out terminal compares again. Is it possible to rollback last upgrade of Lightdm? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/804171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

