Comment 7 for bug 1291341

I just installed a fresh 14.04 and had the same problem. After comparing it with another working host, I found the difference in the /var/log directory ownership and permission

on working host:

% ls -ld /var/log/
drwxrwxr-x 14 root syslog 4096 Jul 8 06:25 /var/log/

on the problem host:

% ls -ld /var/log/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 9 01:40 /var/log/

/etc/rsyslog.conf writes file with syslog user and adm group but the /var/log dir is not writable.

It's working ok after I have fix the ownership/permission problem.