This also happened to me on an upgrade from Oneiric to Precise Alpha2. I switched to GDM to get my system working at the time.
Purging lightdm did not work, as the originally reported, I had to manually delete the files in /var/lib/lightdm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887316 Title: /var/lib/lightdm files owned by invalid user after reinstall To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/887316/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
