Hi again, @NilleB
Thanks for the outputs. Could you please try to run the following command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
... and then reboot?
I'm suggesting that because that was the working solution posted by @ironfoot in a somewhat similar (but different) scenario (upgrade from Ubuntu MATE 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu MATE 24.10):
And to take another good suggestion by @ironfoot in that other topic, could you also please include, in your reply, the output of the following command:
lightdm --show-config