I was facing the same issue earlier, and finally tracked it down to lightdm not being able to access things inside my HOME directory. Specifically, it looks like the greeter was looking for my wallpaper, and couldn't access it, so it hung. Setting 0755 permissions to my $HOME fixes this.
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