the screen graphics card and input device settings could not be detected correctly and in lightdm.log file it says fail to start a greeter, i hard shutdown my laptop many times also, I also made another user without giving them a home directory does that help

[Michael Odumosu]

the screen graphics card and input device settings could not be detected correctly and in lightdm.log file it says fail to start a greeter, i hard shutdown my laptop many times also, I also made another user without giving them a home directory does that help

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: lightdm 1.18.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-42.45~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 14 20:17:50 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-25 (354 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)