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[Cristian Marchi <868176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dmitry for the help. The --reconfigure option is unknown by dpkg. Tried with --configure but I get the same error message.
Before reading your solution, I've tried to remove from synaptic the lightdm package along with xubuntu-desktop packages that depends on it.

Now the error I got is this:Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.0.1-0ubuntu6) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf doesn't exist.
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
                                                              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:
 lightdm-gtk-greeter
 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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