> Removing the greeter-session line does not help, it breaks lightdm even with with unity-greeter being installed.
Could you add your /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log to the bug? The unity greeter is the default in Ubuntu either you should install or change your config to list a greeter you use How did you land with lightdm installed but not unity-greeter since it's a recommends? > I disagree that this was an 'invalid' bug. It seems to me that lightdm does require some greeter package to be installed, which should be reflected by package dependencies. It doesn't no, it's the usual config but you could decide to have a light client config and connect to a display over vnc or xdmcp without needing a local greeter > "unity-greeter | lightdm-greeter" shoulbe promoted from Recommends to Depends to ensure that at least one greeter package is installed, with 'unity-greeter' being the preferred greeter. No, I did change to a Recommends during Oneiric and robert_ancell said the Recommends want on purpose to allow people to just use the server part of lightdm locally and use remote displays... Note that there are some bugs on the topic, yours might be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842194 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878751 Title: lightdm does not start without the package unity-greeter installed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: lightdm does not start without the package unity-greeter installed. Therefore, unity-greeter should probably be a dependency. Currently, it is just a 'Recommends', so default installations are not affected. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/878751/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
