mate goof? -- PS

[Joshua Doll]

> Transaction test succeeded
> Running transaction (shutdown inhibited)
>        What does that second line mean? And should I placate it by
rebooting soonest?

Pretty sure that this means that yum is making a call to systemd to prevent
shutdowns, and reboots from happening while the transaction is taking place.

>        Second PS: I had enough bits and pieces to get a mate panel
> started yesterday, and pretty well filled out -- but when I got back to
> the machine today, that panel didn't show up. Then I got :
>
> [btth at localhost ~]$ mate-panel
>** Message: Could not connect to session manager: Could not get owner of
>name 'org.mate.SessionManager': no such name
>
>** (mate-panel:9175): WARNING **: Could not connect to session manager:
>Could not get owner of name 'org.mate.SessionManager': no such name
>^C
>[btth at localhost ~]$t
>
>        What is this "session manager"? Will it be there now?

It should work after you've installed the MATE Desktop group.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:42:50 -0400, Joshua Doll wrote:
>
> > Did you try
> >
> > yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"  ?
>
>         Now I'm on #2. It seems to have done fine, but I did notice one
> oddity:
>
> > Transaction test succeeded
> > Running transaction (shutdown inhibited)
>
>         What does that second line mean? And should I placate it by
> rebooting soonest?
>
>         Second PS: I had enough bits and pieces to get a mate panel
> started yesterday, and pretty well filled out -- but when I got back to
> the machine today, that panel didn't show up. Then I got :
>
> [btth at localhost ~]$ mate-panel
> ** Message: Could not connect to session manager: Could not get owner of
> name 'org.mate.SessionManager': no such name
>
> ** (mate-panel:9175): WARNING **: Could not connect to session manager:
> Could not get owner of name 'org.mate.SessionManager': no such name
> ^C
> [btth at localhost ~]$t
>
>         What is this "session manager"? Will it be there now?
>
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