On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:52:12AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
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.
Ouch. Is this with updates repository enabled, or not?
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.
Yeah, if there's a conflict between packages that are all dependencies, no flags will help. The RPMs need to be fixed.
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.
This, and the above, probably needs to be brought up with the MATE Compiz spin team, and possibly MATE upstream. The spins page gives #fedora-mate as a place to talk with the developers (as well as this list, although I'm not sure I've seen the developers active here).