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Refer here: QUESTION

Those are the exact step I did in my install - a raring x64 server install + all needed xorg packages to run a GUI + MATE 1.6.

Basic lightdm + unity-greeter is flawless, as well as the other lightdm greeter available under ubuntu, and I also use Gala window manager from the eOs ppa, but pantheon-greeter fails to start from lightdm.

I am able to run it from a terminal window within a session, just never from lightdm - it always shows the message "unable to start job".

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It's sad but I'll answer it myself ...

The packages in the other question was incomplete hence it's crashing. I had to add 2 additional packages - elementary-icon-theme and notify-osd-icons-elementary. Refered to this BUG REPORT. notify-osd-icons-elementary wasnt actually part of the bug report but itwas recommended by apt-get so I included it.

So the more complete instruction would be

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pantheon-greeter elementary-theme fonts-open-sans fonts-raleway elementary-icon-theme notify-osd-icons-elementary
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    Studied it more, you can get away with even less packages as follows: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pantheon-greeter elementary-icon-theme notify-osd-icons-elementary
    – Baker
    Jul 8, 2013 at 0:55

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