Public bug reported:
I believe I was cleaning out some unnecessary packages and somehow I
tripped into a situation where unity / lightdm / xwindows wasn't
starting. It kept blinking faintly during bootup when X was supposed to
start. It took me a minute to figure out what was malfunctioning. I
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1228567 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1228567
I don't know whether or not duplicate status is wrong.. but an internet
search led me here and I'm hoping to give a possible fix to someone else
who runs into this or something that looks like this:
Issue f