Comment 6 for bug 405227

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 <email address hidden> 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
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