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lightdm package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #1188131
  3. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1188131

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Andrew Duncan (andrew-duncan) wrote : Re: [Bug 1188131] Re: lightdm does not start on boot

The workaround works perfectly, thanks.

I forgot to mention in the bug report that I had tried previous
kernel versions, which didn't work for me either.

On 06/06/13 20:47, Lindsay wrote:
> 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 $?
>