On Tue, 5 May 2020 05:30:26 -0400 Eddie O'Connor wrote:> Are there .conf files for the desktop?....what about logs?....something's > got to be amiss somewhere....and Linux always complains when it is.....in > logs. Just wondering out loud...What happens if he sets up a new user? Does the desktop work then? -- Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This one has a virus. MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 10:32 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:> On Tue, 5 May 2020 05:30:26 -0400 > Eddie O'Connor wrote: > > > Are there .conf files for the desktop?....what about > > logs?....something's > > got to be amiss somewhere....and Linux always complains when it > > is.....in > > logs. Just wondering out loud... > > What happens if he sets up a new user? Does the desktop work then?Frank, For some reason I didn't get Eddie O'Connor's message. If there are .conf files they're hiding pretty well. And as I said, systemctl -ex, journalctl, and dmesg don't show any errors. If you search for "troubleshooting MATE desktop" I think you'll be disappointed in how little help there is. I guess that's to be expected of a desktop that "just works". Yours is an excellent suggestion. If the new user works, the problem would be a fault in my account's configuration. If not, then it's the MATE system. So I created a new user "test", reset the machine, and logged into the MATE desktop as the new user. Unfortunately I see the exact same misbehavior. I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing MATE from scratch from the GNOME3 desktop. Is that possible without ripping the heart out of C8 by deleting other critical packages? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote:> > I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing MATE > from scratch from the GNOME3 desktop. Is that possible without > ripping > the heart out of C8 by deleting other critical packages?I've attached a capture of "dnf erase *mate*" that shows the 104 packages that would be removed. It looks safe enough, but if there's a a better way to fix the problem I'd rather try that. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -------------- next part -------------- # dnf erase *mate* Modular dependency problems: Problem 1: conflicting requests - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBD-MySQL:4.046:8010020191114030811:073fa5fe-0.x86_64 Problem 2: conflicting requests - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBD-SQLite:1.58:8010020191114033549:073fa5fe-0.x86_64 Problem 3: conflicting requests - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBI:1.641:8010020191113222731:16b3ab4d-0.x86_64 Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================ Package Architecture Version Repository Size 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============================================================================================================================================================================Remove 104 Packages Freed space: 722 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Operation aborted.