system-image-dbus crashed with PermissionError in initialize(): [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/system-image/client.log'

[Iain Lane]

I got this on logging in (on a desktop system)

laney@raleigh> sudo ls -al /var/log/system-image
[sudo] password for laney:
total 164
drwxrws--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 12:00 .
drwxrwxr-x 23 root syslog 4096 Dec 12 09:21 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 155559 Dec 10 15:36 client.log

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: system-image-dbus 1.9.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Dec 11 10:51:02 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/system-image-dbus
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (430 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.3 /usr/sbin/system-image-dbus
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/system-image-dbus']
SourcePackage: system-image
Title: system-image-dbus crashed with PermissionError in initialize(): [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/system-image/client.log'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-05-07 (219 days ago)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers