LightDM has never rotated the files, it does now in the trunk version. I can confirm the odd writing into the middle of the file, investigating that now. I haven't been able to reproduce the case where an existing log file doesn't get overwritten - can you check the permissions on the file?
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951597 Title: 1.1.7 : breaks xsession-errors, no more rotated To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/951597/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs