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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Could you add your /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log to the bug? The unity
greeter is the default in Ubuntu either you should install or change
your config to list a greeter you use

How did you land with lightdm installed but not unity-greeter since it's
a recommends?

> 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.

It doesn't no, it's the usual config but you could decide to have a
light client config and connect to a display over vnc or xdmcp without
needing a local greeter

> "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.

No, I did change to a Recommends during Oneiric and robert_ancell said
the Recommends want on purpose to allow people to just use the server
part of lightdm locally and use remote displays...


Note that there are some bugs on the topic, yours might be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842194

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878751

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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