lightdm does not start on boot

[Rolf Leggewie]

I've helped a friend update his computer from natty to oneiric. After that was accomplished, Ubuntu which I'd praised gleefully embarassed itself by failing to show a login screen. Apparently, these days lightdm is the login manager of choice. I had to put the following into root's crontab to make sure lightdm does come up.

@reboot sleep 22; service lightdm stop;service lightdm start

unity-greeter is installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 27 18:45:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-12 (15 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. did you remove gdm on that box? you could be hitting bug #864174
Could you add /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log to the bug?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Indeed, that's the one. Thank you.