I have a brand-new Dell Precision workstation, on which I'm trying to install Fedora 23 (with my preferred desktop environment, MATE), which is turning into the most frustrating Linux install I've experienced in a long time (and I've been using Linux since before Red Hat existed). I started with Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-23 on a thumb drive. I booted, selected automatic partitioning and MATE, and it started downloading RPMs. When it finished downloading, it rebooted. Apparently, there's a conflict between release and updates on who owns /etc/xdg/menus/mate-preferences-categoris.menu, and anaconda just crashes and reboots (not even a traceback) on an install transaction failure. After a few passes through that before I figured out anaconda was not going to install MATE (with frustrating waits for downloads each time), I gave up and did a minimal install. Then I did a dnf groupinstall MATE, and that downloaded all the RPMs, then gave me the error about the file conflict. I tried to exclude one of the choices, use --best, etc., and nothing would solve it. Also, when "dnf groupinstall foo" is run, even if it fails, dnf then thinks the group is installed (and so a repeated groupinstall does nothing). I had to do a groupremove first. I just manually installed the RPMs from the dnf cache to get around the MATE brokenness, and then got systemd to do a graphical boot. Now, when I get to the graphical login, my USB is dead. I can boot single-user mode and the keyboard works fine; as soon as the graphical login loads, USB appears dead (keyabord is like it is powered off, no Numlock, Capslock, etc.). Tried unplugging keyboard, moving it to different USB ports (directly on the computer instead of hub), etc. with no result. The fact that the keyboard works in single-user mode shows there's no hardware problem, Linux USB issue, etc. At this point, I guess I'll roll back and try Fedora 22. If I ever get a working desktop, I'll try to file some bugs I guess. I found a BZ about anaconda that appears to match my problem (1287841). That doesn't explain the MATE conflicts in the repos, dnf groupinstall fail, or disappearing USB though. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
