Ubuntu
lightdm package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #1188131
  3. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1188131

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Lindsay (fmouse) wrote : Re: lightdm does not start on boot

I can confirm this bug, but have tried several stored kernels going back to 3.2.0-29-generic and the problem doesn't seem to be related to the kernel version. I note that a new version of lightdm came out several days ago and perhaps the problem is there.

As a fairly acceptable workaround for this problem, enable /etc/rc.local and add the following lines to it:

/sbin/start lightdm
exit $?