LightDM and unity system compositor logs not attached to bug reports due to being root owned

Bug #1221506 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity System Compositor
Fix Released
High
Robert Ancell
unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Most of the bug reports we get lack log files. It seems one reason for this can be fixed in the code:

UnitySystemCompositorLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log'
LightDMLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log'

As seen in bug 1215053.

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no longer affects: unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity-system-compositor:
importance: Undecided → High
no longer affects: lightdm
summary: - Log files don't have world-read access so are often missing from bug
- reports
+ LightDM and unity system compositor logs not attached to bug reports due
+ to being root owned
description: updated
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

The logs are intentionally root owned - they might contain sensitive data.

no longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity-system-compositor:
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:unity-system-compositor at revision 73, scheduled for release in unity-system-compositor, milestone Unknown

Changed in unity-system-compositor:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
no longer affects: unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity-system-compositor:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-system-compositor - 0.0.1+13.10.20130924.1-0ubuntu1

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unity-system-compositor (0.0.1+13.10.20130924.1-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Get root permissions to attach lightdm and u-s-c logs. Also attach
    the .old logs. (LP: #1221506)
  * Prompt to restart after installing unity-system-compositor. (LP:
    #1221209)
  * Set lifecycle state for clients when setting the active session.
    (LP: #1192843)
  * Implement regex blacklist for supported OpenGL drivers (copied from
    Compiz blacklist). (LP: #1226713)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 77
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:03:44 +0000

Changed in unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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