This problem still exists within Precise. I ran sudo apt-get purge lightdm and got the following output in the Terminal: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: lightdm* ubuntu-desktop* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 5 not upgraded. After this operation, 505 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 232740 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ubuntu-desktop ... Removing lightdm ... Purging configuration files for lightdm ... Removing user `lightdm' ... Warning: group `lightdm' has no more members. userdel: user lightdm is currently logged in /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel lightdm' returned error code 8. Exiting. dpkg: error processing lightdm (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Errors were encountered while processing: lightdm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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