I installed gdm for a while as my display manager, and after removing it, lightdm does not start by itself. I instead have to login to a tty, and run sudo start lightdm.

Running dpkg-reconfigure lightdm does not work either:

dpkg-maintscript-helper: warning: environment variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME missing

dpkg-maintscript-helper: warning: environment variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE missing

I've also tried reinstalling lightdm completely, but it does not work as well

My /var/log/boot.log has the following lines:

* Starting LightDM Display Manager                                                                                                                  

* Starting ACPI daemon                                                                                                                              

* Starting anac(h)ronistic cron                                                                                                                     

* Starting save kernel messages                                                                                                                      

* Stopping LightDM Display Manager