I get the unable to connect message about 10 secs after boot but no further lightdm messages, and no obvious ill effect, so perhaps it is unrelated to the PAM messages. In fact the only lightdm messages I see are:
$ grep -i lightdm /var/log/syslog Apr 6 09:57:14 tigger kernel: [ 10.835217] audit: type=1400 audit(1428310634.471:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session" pid=512 comm="apparmor_parser" Apr 6 09:57:21 tigger lightdm[1449]: initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused syslog contained the complete boot sequence, and more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414420 Title: initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1414420/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs