I updated my main computer to Centos 8.5.2111 late last night and now Mate (my usual choice of desktop) will no longer start.
From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.
I use Mate from the stenstorp/MATE repo and it's been working fine until last night's update.
On 18/11/2021 17:10, Frank Cox wrote:
I updated my main computer to Centos 8.5.2111 late last night and now Mate (my usual choice of desktop) will no longer start.
From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.
I use Mate from the stenstorp/MATE repo and it's been working fine until last night's update.
Have you reported the issue to the stenstorp/MATE repo, and if so, what did they say?
I suspect there may be something that needs rebuilding for el8.5.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:24:25 +0000 Phil Perry wrote:
Have you reported the issue to the stenstorp/MATE repo, and if so, what did they say?
Unless I'm missing something (which I probably am) I don't see any obvious way to contact anyone or post bug report on that project webpage.
On 11/18/21 10:10, Frank Cox wrote:
I updated my main computer to Centos 8.5.2111 late last night and now Mate (my usual choice of desktop) will no longer start.
From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.
I use Mate from the stenstorp/MATE repo and it's been working fine until last night's update.
I use the same Mate copr repo, and I didn't encounter any issues on either my bare metal CentOS 8.5 install (after the 8.4->8.5 upgrade), or on a VM that runs a similar installation.
The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.
-Greg
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:27:32 -0700 Greg Bailey wrote:
I use the same Mate copr repo, and I didn't encounter any issues on either my bare metal CentOS 8.5 install (after the 8.4->8.5 upgrade), or on a VM that runs a similar installation.
The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.
Now that's an interesting bit of information indeed.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:27:32 -0700 Greg Bailey wrote:
From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.
The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.
Installing lightdm from the stenscorp/lightdm was indeed the fix.
Now my desktop is back to looking and working like it's supposed to be.
For the next guy who needs to do this, here are the exact commands needed:
dnf copr enable stenstorp/lightdm dnf install lightdm systemctl disable gdm.service systemctl enable lightdm.service
Then reboot. You'll probably have to select Mate from the drop-down list at the top right of the login screen but you only have to make that selection once.
Thank you ever so much for the help, Greg!
Frank Cox writes:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:27:32 -0700 Greg Bailey wrote:
From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.
The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.
Installing lightdm from the stenscorp/lightdm was indeed the fix.
Now my desktop is back to looking and working like it's supposed to be.
For the next guy who needs to do this, here are the exact commands needed:
dnf copr enable stenstorp/lightdm dnf install lightdm systemctl disable gdm.service systemctl enable lightdm.service
Then reboot. You'll probably have to select Mate from the drop-down list at the top right of the login screen but you only have to make that selection once.
Thank you ever so much for the help, Greg!
I had the same experience with Rocky - not able to login after the update and being returned to the login screen. In this case, the solution was to install the latest vbox guest additions (this is a vbox VM). And I'm still using gdm.
We had the same issue with some systems after the Almalinux 8.4 > 8.5 update.
Solved by switching to Gnome then back to MATE.
Steve
On 18/11/2021 17:27, Greg Bailey wrote:
On 11/18/21 10:10, Frank Cox wrote:
I updated my main computer to Centos 8.5.2111 late last night and now Mate (my usual choice of desktop) will no longer start.
From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.
I use Mate from the stenstorp/MATE repo and it's been working fine until last night's update.
I use the same Mate copr repo, and I didn't encounter any issues on either my bare metal CentOS 8.5 install (after the 8.4->8.5 upgrade), or on a VM that runs a similar installation.
The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.
-Greg
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:00:41 +0000 Steve Wardle via CentOS wrote:
We had the same issue with some systems after the Almalinux 8.4 > 8.5 update.
Solved by switching to Gnome then back to MATE.
I've done a bit of experimenting with a few other computers and found that if I switch to lightdm first, then upgrade to Centos 8.5 everything works just fine and as expected. If I upgrade to 8.5 first and reboot while still using gdm I can't log back in with Mate and though I can still log in with Gnome.
I think the easiest course of action here is to install and activate lightdm first, then do the upgrade to 8.5. Everything just works.
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