lightdm don't restart after closed session

[willy]

After choosing "Close session...", lightdm don't start, just wallpaper and mouse nothing else!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 0.4.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 22 23:07:35 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110531.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-13 (9 days ago)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

it doesn't restart the xserver on logout, maybe this is intentional but might also reveal issues in other parts of the system.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Could you please attach /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log after this occurs? Thanks.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Confirmed and reproducable.
Logout via session menu button.
Only wallpaper is displayed, no lightdm or anything else.
Switch to tty and reboot.

[willy (william-lety)]

From Unity or Gnome-shell session, same problem!

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Still the case with
lightdm 0.4.3-0ubuntu1

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Workaround after logout from session and just viewing desktop background.
Switch to tty ctrl+alt+f1
Login with username and passwd.
Run:
sudo restart lightdm

[willy (william-lety)]

Another workaround:
sudo service lightdm restart

[willy (william-lety)]

It works now with lightdm 0.9.2

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Confirme fixed. Thanks.
$ apt-cache policy lightdm
lightdm:
  Installed: 0.9.2-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.9.2-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status