Issues with install F23 MATE desktop

[Paul Cartwright]

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....

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> On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> 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 at cmadams.net>
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