Bug 1575231

Summary:	dnf group install "Cinnamon Desktop" does not produce usable Cinnamon DE
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul DeStefano <prd-fedora>
Component:	cinnamon	Assignee:	Alternative GTK desktop environments <alt-gtk-de-sig>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	28	CC:	alt-gtk-de-sig, leigh123linux
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Description Paul DeStefano 2018-05-05 10:07:41 UTC

Description of problem:
I use Xfce.  I wanted to test moving to Cinnamon DE, so I tried it on my Fedora Xfce VM using

dnf group install "Cinnamon Desktop"

But, it looks like Cinnamon is very broken.  Is this supposed to work like I did it?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cinnamon-3.8.0-2.fc28.x86_64

Actual results:
Immediately on login, you get dialog box with "Cinnamon crashed. You are running in fallback mode."

Also, when selecting "software rendering" at login screen, many "apps" fail to start on login and cannot be started.

Comment 1 leigh scott 2018-05-05 10:19:13 UTC

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4c9e1c937c

Comment 2 leigh scott 2018-05-05 10:23:47 UTC

This should be fixed by running updates.