I believe it was just an incorrect package in the desktop seed. I switched it to lightdm-gtk-greeter. I'm under the assumption that'll fix the issue.
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Janne Jokitalo (astraljava) ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/922424 Title: lightdm won't start I have console(s) only Status in “ubuntustudio-meta” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: On install of ubuntustudio 12.04 alpha (jan 26, but others for about a week now) boot never gets to lightdm. I can log in on a console terminal ok. The lightdm log complains about missing /usr/share/xgreeters/default.desktop. putting a link in that directory to lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop (ln -s lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop default.desktop) seems to correct this problem. Oneric (xubuntu) just has lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop and works fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-meta/+bug/922424/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp