> I'm not sure how this would have worked in the past.

Ah, I know now -- when I do "sudo apt-get install --no-install-
recommends lightdm" in xenial, lightdm.service is not started at all
right after package installation.

So I think that's the regression -- I don't think it's a good idea to
start a DM right after package installation, it might interfere with
other DMs or running X sessions? Was  that done on purpose?

> What's pulling in LightDM? Perhaps we should change that depends.

Some systemd autopkgtests pull in lightdm, mostly to ensure that boot
works and lightdm comes up. In the "real" tests X.org gets configured
with the dummy driver and the VM gets rebooted, so lightdm starts up
fine. In the test that failed (cmdline-upstart-boot) I don't do this.
But I don't install recommends there, thus I run into the "missing
greeter" issue.

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