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 at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> 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.