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[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is my lightdm.conf. There is no specific reference to any greeter.

Removing the greeter-session line does not help, it breaks lightdm even
with with unity-greeter being installed.

Bug #812170 may sound related from the subject line, but the report
itself is about a very different (and specific) usecase.

I disagree that this was an 'invalid' bug. It seems to me that lightdm
does require some greeter package to be installed, which should be
reflected by package dependencies.

As all greeter packages Proivde the virtual package 'lightdm-greeter', I
think the the part "unity-greeter | lightdm-greeter" shoulbe promoted
from Recommends to Depends to ensure that at least one greeter package
is installed, with 'unity-greeter' being the preferred greeter.


** Attachment added: "lightdm.conf"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/878751/+attachment/2562584/+files/lightdm.conf

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

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Title:
  lightdm does not start without the package unity-greeter installed

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  lightdm does not start without the package unity-greeter installed.

  Therefore, unity-greeter should probably be a dependency. Currently,
  it is just a 'Recommends', so default installations are not affected.

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