Ubuntu
lightdm package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #887316
  3. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 887316

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TK (tkrishan) wrote : Re: /var/lib/lightdm files owned by invalid user after reinstall

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.