Once upon a time, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org said:
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?
I believe I tried it without updates enabled, but I'm not sure now.
I was also fighting with getting anaconda to use a proxy (weird office Cisco firewall issue slowing downloads from the Internet dramatically, but a local proxy outside the firewall works fine). It is very unclear that if you use "closest mirror" that specifying a proxy on the same screen has no effect; it has to be done on the boot command line (there's a BZ for this but was closed as WONTFIX IIRC; IMHO there should at least be a warning).
Yeah, if there's a conflict between packages that are all dependencies, no flags will help. The RPMs need to be fixed.
Definitely; the combination of that plus an anaconda bug just rebooting made it seriously frustrating to figure out though.
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).
I will try to go back and find the conflicting packages, see which was in updates, and file a bug (I made an IRC account but haven't used it in a long time).
I did finally get the system going by using the MATE live spin image (and then loading updates) - no USB issue there. I've just always used the netinst image (CD, USB, or PXE booted).
Now everything but my Bluetooth works, but I think that's a issue with a near-brand-new chip (Intel 8260 wifi+BT), the Linux kernel driver, and firmware (hopefully F23 will get Linux 4.3 soon and that'll help).