Thanks Dmitry for the help. The --reconfigure option is unknown by dpkg. Tried
with --configure but I get the same error message.
Before reading your solution, I've tried to remove from synaptic the lightdm
package along with xubuntu-desktop packages that depends on it.
Now the error I got is this:Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.0.1-0ubuntu6) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing lightdm-gtk-greeter (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency
problems prevent configuration of xubuntu-default-settings:
xubuntu-default-settings depends on lightdm-gtk-greeter (>= 1.0.0-0ubuntu2);
however:
Package lightdm-gtk-greeter is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xubuntu-default-settings (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency
problems prevent configuration of xubuntu-desktop:
xubuntu-desktop depends on lightdm-gtk-greeter; however:
Package lightdm-gtk-greeter is not configured yet.
xubuntu-desktop depends on xubuntu-default-settings; however:
Package xubuntu-default-settings is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were
encountered while processing:
lightdm-gtk-greeter
xubuntu-default-settings
xubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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package lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
lightdm-gtk-greeter: config file '/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-
ubuntu.conf' is a circular link
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