Is anyone experiencing this who's upgraded directly from 11.04 to 11.10? (i.e. didn't upgrade to any of the Oneiric development releases). My guess is there was a version of LightDM that incorrectly wrote this file with root permissions and upgrading from that version triggers the problem.
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