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[Cristian Marchi <868176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the day this bug has happened, I can't no more get updates. Is
there a workaround?

That's the output of "apt-get upgrade":

Setting up vim-tiny (2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3) ...
update-alternatives: error: cannot stat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing vim-tiny (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal:
 ubuntu-minimal depends on vim-tiny; however:
  Package vim-tiny is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-minimal (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Setting up firefox (7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: error: cannot stat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-globalmenu:
 firefox-globalmenu depends on firefox (= 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2); however:
  Package firefox is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-globalmenu (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-gnome-support:
 firefox-gnome-support depends on firefox; however:
  Package firefox is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-gnome-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Setting up lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.0.1-0ubuntu6) ...
update-alternatives: error: cannot stat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing lightdm-gtk-greeter (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Setting up samba-common-bin (2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: error: cannot stat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf: Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing samba-common-bin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba:
 samba depends on samba-common-bin; however:
  Package samba-common-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xubuntu-default-settings:
 xubuntu-default-settings depends on lightdm-gtk-greeter (>= 1.0.0-0ubuntu2); however:
  Package lightdm-gtk-greeter is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xubuntu-default-settings (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xubuntu-desktop:
 xubuntu-desktop depends on lightdm-gtk-greeter; however:
  Package lightdm-gtk-greeter is not configured yet.
 xubuntu-desktop depends on xubuntu-default-settings; however:
  Package xubuntu-default-settings is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 vim-tiny
 ubuntu-minimal
 firefox
 firefox-globalmenu
 firefox-gnome-support
 lightdm-gtk-greeter
 samba-common-bin
 samba
 xubuntu-default-settings
 xubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Title:
  package lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
  lightdm-gtk-greeter: config file '/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-
  ubuntu.conf' is a circular link

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  While installing update for 10.10 I cannot install this package

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct  5 10:03:51 2011
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  Title: package lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (11 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.lightdm.lightdm.gtk.greeter.ubuntu.conf: [deleted]

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