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[Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 706354 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706354

Yann,

There's a simple fix, which avoids running any dpkg-* commands:

sudo su
echo "/usr/sbin/lightdm" > /etc/X11/default-display-manager
exit

That should do it.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/854337

Title:
  "dpkg-reconfigure lightdm" fails

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  GDM was used instead of lightdm, so I uninstalled it (sudo aptitude
  remove gdm), it told me to uninstall also gdm-guest-session. And it
  told me to run "dpkg-reconfigure lightdm". But it fails, so I have to
  manually launch "sudo lightdm" from TTY1 to log in.

  $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
  dpkg-maintscript-helper: warning: environment variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME missing
  dpkg-maintscript-helper: warning: environment variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE missing
  $

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Sep 20 02:39:48 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-03 (16 days ago)

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