Ugh. Found the cause. The ubuntu-desktop package depends on lightdm
but it doesn't depend on any greeter. So upgrading will pull in
lightdm, replace GDM but have no greeter installed. What is supposed to
happen then is failsafe X starts and prompts you to fix the error, but
that doesn't work ei
> - systems using another greeter (xubuntu use the gtk greeter for example)
> - systems used to do remote login and not running a local greeter
> - other customs installations need
wow, that was obvious... I forgot that lightdm wasn't a part of unity.
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So uh.. just curious, how does a bug this big get launched without
someone noticing it?
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After latest upgrade of oneiric, L
> can anybody provide a case where it should not be?
- systems using another greeter (xubuntu use the gtk greeter for example)
- systems used to do remote login and not running a local greeter
- other customs installations need
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I can confirm that installing unity-greeter. I think it should be a
requirement, can anybody provide a case where it should not be? Also,
can someone please mark this as "invalid" in lightdm (ubuntu)?
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Perhaps a solution is to require one "unity-greeter" in the
dependencies. for lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.1 it is listed as a recommend.
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