You have been subscribed to a public bug: Installing LightDM from scratch will result in an unbootable system.
This is because the default greeter - unity-greeter - (and maybe some others, I haven't checked) actually needs gnome-settings-daemon to work. However unity-greeter does not list gnome-settings-daemon as a dependency, which it most-certainly should. Following is the output of the command "dpkg-query -s unity-greeter", which lists all of unity-greeter's dependencies.: Package: unity-greeter Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 204 Maintainer: Robert Ancell <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.1.1-0ubuntu1 Provides: lightdm-greeter Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.26.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libindicator3-6, liblightdm-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.9.2), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6 Recommends: lightdm Conffiles: /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf 06cfff7d4ffdd010b56ffc3cd10207ae Description: Unity Greeter The greeter for the Unity desktop. Homepage: https://launchpad.net/unity-greeter How to replicate: 1) Install a working system from the Ubuntu repositories not including gnome-settings-daemon. You can use the Ubuntu mini installer, but take note of the following bug as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/775279 2) Install lightdm, which will pull in unity-greeter 3) Reboot the computer. Suggestions: The package dependencies can be updated, or alternatively, if possible, remove the need for gnome-settings-daemon altogether, as this will allow non-GNOME systems like Xfce to use the Unity greeter without needing to install GNOME stuff, for example http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11439942&postcount=5 is an example under which you may want the Unity greeter, but not the gnome- settings-daemon - it doesn't control the settings in other desktops, but takes up space. This is actually the case for GDM as well, it could be noted, but LightDM is supposed to desktop-independent. ** Affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: lightdm unity -- Greeter does not work without gnome-settings-daemon, but the package doesn't list it as a dependency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932965 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
