Public bug reported:

After upgrading to 11.10, lxdm (LXDE) failed to start at boot making
lubuntu enter directly to text-mode.

A couple of related bugs were filled (#854329, #854837, #694896) but
none of them fixed my problem.

After digging around I found that the upstart job /etc/init/lxdm.conf
ran and stopped inmmediatly. A couple of weeks later (BTW, upstart debug
log sucks!), I found that in this file there's a condition that checks
the content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager (line 28) and expects to
found "/usr/sbin/lxdm". In my case, the content of the file was "lxdm"
therefore the condition was not satisfied and lxdm failed to start
(actually it was being forced to stop).

After changing the content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager to
"/usr/sbin/lxdm", lxdm (LXDE) started to work at boot time showing login
screen as expected.

I never changed /etc/X11/default-display-manager manually, so I guess
that either that file is not set always with full path of executable or
the upgrade process failed to update the file content properly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.24~ppa1~loms~oneiric-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan  6 11:07:40 2012
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-01 (66 days ago)

** Affects: lxdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lxdm oneiric

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