it happens to me too. I have arch linux, installed just a few days ago,
so everything is up to date, and I'm using gtk3 greeter. I got lightdm
trough lightdm-bzr package, so it is compiled directly from the
development trunk. What's strange is that sometimes it loads right, and
sometimes i get a black screen with just the cursor, I have to blindly
type the password and press enter. Then my desktop environment loads and
everything is ok. The black screen happens very often, about 50% of the
time, while for the remaining 50% it displays correctly. What's very
strange is that seems to be very random.
I use it on an old laptop, it has an old intel gma900 graphic chip,
using xfree86 intel driver. dunno if matters though, xfce and awesome
are fine, so I don't think the problem is related to X.

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Title:
  boots to a black screen with a cursor

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After the splash screen on boot, I get taken to a black screen which
  has an active cursor.

  I have to switch to tty1 (or another tty) and run the following:
   sudo service lightdm restart

  Then I get taken to the lightdm login screen.

  I'm not sure why it isn't starting properly, happy to help diagnose
  though.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: lightdm 1.5.3-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Apr  5 11:25:51 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-26 (343 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 
(20120425)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-22 (41 days ago)

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