Description of problem: I upgraded (yum upgrade) to 1.5.2-7 today (last standard available stable versions from repository) and cannot start a session with MATE any more. All other flavours (gnome, xfce4, ...) work as before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.2-7 How reproducible: Trying to debug, I started an X server, then marco by hand: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login to text window (tty), for example Ctrl-Alt-F4 2. $ X :1.0 & 3. $ export DISPLAY=:1.0 4. $ xterm # it works! 5. Ctrl-C 6. $ marco (marco:7404): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.mate.interface' is not installed Actual results: Indeed it looks like /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas does not contain org.mate.interface.gschema.xml (any more?). Expected results: marco (mate-window-manager) should start up correctly. Additional info: Strangely, the sister RPM mate-desktop-1.5.3-5.fc16.i686.rpm contains a significant number of org.mate.*.schema.xml files for /usr/share/glib2.0/schemas/. Looks a little messy to me: Why do we have a higher number in fc16 than in fc17?
(In reply to comment #0) > Strangely, the sister RPM mate-desktop-1.5.3-5.fc16.i686.rpm contains a > significant number of org.mate.*.schema.xml files for > /usr/share/glib2.0/schemas/. > Looks a little messy to me: Why do we have a higher number in fc16 than in > fc17? I should have mentioned: $ rpm -q mate-desktop mate-desktop-1.4.1-11.fc17.x86_64
Confirmation: I extracted the org.mate.*.schema.xml files from http://pkgs.org/fedora-16/fedora-updates-x86_64/mate-desktop-1.5.3-5.fc16.x86_64.rpm/download/ and copied them to /usr/share/glib2.0/schemas/. Compiled them: $ sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ Now I can logon to my MATE session without being thrown out immediately. However, the display is flickering, apparently due to problems with the menu bar(s) to start up. Please provide a coherent set of mate-* RPMs for fc17 urgently!
You need 1.5.5. Please run "su -c 'yum update --enable-repo=updates-testing'" This is being pushed to stable now.
*** Bug 886974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #3) > You need 1.5.5. Please run "su -c 'yum update --enable-repo=updates-testing'" > > This is being pushed to stable now. It is surprising that this works for you. Yum says "no such option: --enable-repo" to me ;-) Tried $ su yum update mate-\* --enablerepo=updates-testing (I do not want to get all updates), which triggered six package updates: mate-desktop mate-desktop-devel mate-desktop-libs mate-file-manager mate-file-manager-extensions mate-settings-daemon With these, the mate sessions works fine, besides the fact that: - I lost my "Appearance" settings. - The panel that used to be at the bottom is set to the top. Both could be re-edited by hand.
You're forgetting the libs. Loss of settings is expected and unfortunate behavior of switching to gsettings.
Right. It is only a workaround and works for me. I hope it makes it to stable soon. I confirm loss of settings is also true for the terminal. All this gnome-mate business is a big mess. I am much less confident that I will use either of them, now that I had to spend an evening with xfce4 instead and succeeded rather quickly to get all my usual widgets configured in the menu bars again. Thanks for your quick reactions!
I cannot control upstream's decisions, only make suggestions. The decision to move to gsettings made my life easier as the package maintainer. You shouldn't lose your settings again. libmate-1.4.0-17.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 10:42:59 libmatecanvas-1.4.0-8.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 10:27:44 libmatecomponent-1.4.0-14.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 08:43:15 mate-media-1.5.0-1.fc16 Fedora 16 pending stable 0 2012-12-04 07:56:18 mate-conf-1.4.0-21.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 07:54:02 mate-panel-1.5.2-4.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 07:35:37 mate-file-manager-1.5.2-1.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable -1 2012-12-04 07:03:27 mate-file-manager-1.5.2-1.fc17 Fedora 17 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 06:40:27 mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 06:28:31 mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc17 Fedora 17 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 06:14:12 mate-file-manager-1.5.2-1.fc18 Fedora 18 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 02:51:49 mate-settings-daemon-1.5.4-1.fc18 Fedora 18 testing stable 0 2012-12-04 02:28:33 mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc16 Fedora 16 testing stable 0 2012-12-03 23:16:54 mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc17 Fedora 17 testing stable 0 2012-12-03 23:14:51 mate-desktop-1.5.5-1.fc18 Fedora 18 testing stable 0 2012-12-03 23:10:07 All put in requests for pushing to stable. Thanks, Dan