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.