I have a 10'year old dell laptop. I did the f23 install.. A while back.. And I run mate. I think I did a gnome install, then did the dnf install mate-desktop or something similar to that.... Sent from my iPad > On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 -- 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
