On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 04:33:59PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:06:14PM -0800, Alice Wonder wrote:
On 12/21/18 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
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Result: Boots to GDM just fine, but Mate is a black screen. Switching to Gnome, works fine, but I can't stand Gnome. Not knowing what else to try I restored the dd backup.
This is a known issue, and was mentioned on this list recently. The problem is that Mate in EPEL needs to be updated to work with CentOS 7.6. Perhaps keep an eye on changes to the EPEL repo before attempting the upgrade again.
Thanks, Liam, for the info.
Since it IS working on the netbook I'm hoping that means that whatever needed updating has been updated.
So, I compared the versions on my desktop with those on the netbook, and find that mate_dictionary, mate-disk-usage-analyzer, mate-screenshot, mate-search-tool, mate-system-log, mate-system-monitor, mate-utilsk, mate-utils-common all had a minor version bump. Some from 1.16.1-1 to 1.16.1-2, one from 1.16.0-1 to 1.16.0-2.
I know there are other packages that do not contain "mate" in their names, but I don't know which they are.
So, do you (or anyone else) happen to know which Mate packages are/were in need of update?
thanks again, in advance.
Not sure, MATE is working just fine for me, versions range from 1.16.0 to 1.16.3
yum list |grep "mate" |grep -v "@epel" |grep -v "devel" mate-menus-preferences-category-menu.x86_64 classmate.noarch 1.3.1-2.el7 epel classmate-javadoc.noarch 1.3.1-2.el7 epel f22-backgrounds-mate.noarch 21.91.0-1.el7 epel mate-common.noarch 1.16.0-1.el7 epel mate-netspeed.x86_64 1.12.0-1.el7 epel mate-sensors-applet.x86_64 1.16.1-1.el7 epel mate-themes-extras.noarch 3.14.7-1.el7 epel php-league-climate.noarch 3.2.4-1.el7 epel workrave-mate.x86_64 1.10.16-1.el7 epel xmonad-mate.x86_64 0.11-12.el7 epel
Some of those obviously are not mate packages, but those are the only mate packages I do NOT have installed and it is working, so if mate is not working I wonder if the issue is something other than the packages.
Good question, Alice. I guess I need to go back to trying the upgrade again on my new-to-me-but-still-pretty-old laptop, where it failed a week or so ago. If that works I'll be slightly less paranoid about trying it on my main desktop box, which I definitely do NOT want to screw up.
Or maybe plug in a 1tb usb drive and install on it and see what happens.
Fred
So,... for my new-to-me-but-old laptop, I plugged in a USB drive and saved a dd image of the laptop's HD into a file on the USB drive.
Then I ran the upgrade, which went without any notable issues. Reboot works fine. the X login screen appears, I enter my credentials and log in. It goes through a lot of motions and eventually stops with the snowy/gray background from the Plymouth boot screen, but with nothing at all on it, and no mouse pointer. X is clearly running, but is not displaying my Mate desktop.
I saved aside /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, uploaded subsets of them to pastebin. the /var/log/messages subset is https://pastebin.com/MJR2T3Xz, while the xorg.0.log is https://pastebin.com/wrucd77z.
Note the repeating (apparent) failures at the end of Xorg.0.log.
I don't know what any of this has to do with Mate, but would appreciate your assistance.
(I ran the update on a netbook and it went fine. both have Intel CPUs, the netbook has intel graphics, and the new-to-me-etc. laptop has a Radeon graphics chipset. I dunno if it makes any difference, or how to tell, or how to fix it, if it does.)
Suggestions appreciated, in advance!
Fred