Re: [CentOS] Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111

2021-11-19 Thread Frank Cox 
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:00:41 +
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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Re: [CentOS] Mate desktop crashes at startup after update to Centos 8.5.2111

2021-11-19 Thread Steve Wardle via CentOS 

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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