Closing assumed fixed. ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064061 Title: Lightdm doesn't start if /usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions is missing Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Symptoms: - Screen goes black after booting and showing the plymouth ubuntu logo and stays black or - screen keeps switching back and forth between text and greaphics mode instead of showing the login screen How to trigger: - Take a system that has lightdm installed - Install gdm - select "gdm" as the new login manager - purge lightdm - restart the system - install lightdm-gtk-greeter (which automatically installs lightdm again) - select "lightdm" as login manager - restart the system Somehow the directories /usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions and its parent directory /usr/share/lightdm get lost during this sequence and aren't created anew when lightdm is installed. How to recover in the case the problem has been triggered accidentally: - start the system in recovery mode - grab a root console - create the missing directory by typing mkdir -p /usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions Did manage to trigger this problem twice on my computer since I switched to the developer's version of quantal (64 Bit). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: lightdm 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.6.0-999-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Oct 8 22:46:00 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1064061/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp