This was fixed by deleting the Guest account I created manually in Hardy, but this is the output of the command you suggested:
+ USER=guest + PWSTAT= + adduser --system --no-create-home --home / --gecos Guest --group --shell /bin/bash guest Adding system user `guest' (UID 115) ... Adding new group `guest' (GID 128) ... Adding new user `guest' (UID 115) with group `guest' ... Not creating home directory `/'. + mktemp -td guest-home.XXXXXX + HOME=/tmp/guest-home.zB8114 + mount -t tmpfs -o mode=700 none /tmp/guest-home.zB8114 + chown guest:guest /tmp/guest-home.zB8114 + usermod -d /tmp/guest-home.zB8114 guest + su guest + echo + echo guest guest -- Black screen after clicking to start a Guest Session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/266911 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