I suspect that something is wrong with the installation of libpam- foreground. Can you please give the output of
grep foreground /etc/pam.d/common-session and ls -l /var/run/console/ here? Thank you! ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- nm-applet wants root privileges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs