Greg Bailey
2021-Nov-18 17:27 UTC
[CentOS] Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111
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
Frank Cox
2021-Nov-18 17:35 UTC
[CentOS] Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111
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. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
Frank Cox
2021-Nov-18 19:12 UTC
[CentOS] SOLVED: Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111
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! -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
Steve Wardle
2021-Nov-19 12:00 UTC
[CentOS] Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111
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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos