Manually downloading the old revision and rebooting does resolve the problem for me:
$ wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lightdm/lightdm_1.7.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb $ wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lightdm/liblightdm-gobject-1-0_1.7.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb $ sudo dpkg -i lightdm_1.7.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb liblightdm-gobject-1-0_1.7.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1203660 Title: lightdm crashed with SIGSEGV in g_list_last() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1203660/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs