Mate Desktop Crashes At Startup After Update To CentOS 8.5.2111

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I updated my main computer to CentOS 8.5.2111 late last night and now Mate (my usual choice of desktop) will no longer start.

From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The screen goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login menu.

I use Mate from the stenstorp/MATE repo and it’s been working fine until last night’s update.

6 thoughts on - Mate Desktop Crashes At Startup After Update To CentOS 8.5.2111

  • Have you reported the issue to the stenstorp/MATE repo, and if so, what did they say?

    I suspect there may be something that needs rebuilding for el8.5.

  • I use the same Mate copr repo, and I didn’t encounter any issues on either my bare metal CentOS 8.5 install (after the 8.4->8.5 upgrade), or on a VM that runs a similar installation.

    The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.

    -Greg

  • Unless I’m missing something (which I probably am) I don’t see any obvious way to contact anyone or post bug report on that project webpage.

  • We had the same issue with some systems after the Almalinux 8.4 > 8.5 update.

    Solved by switching to Gnome then back to MATE.

    Steve

  • I’ve done a bit of experimenting with a few other computers and found that if I switch to lightdm first, then upgrade to CentOS 8.5 everything works just fine and as expected. If I upgrade to 8.5 first and reboot while still using gdm I can’t log back in with Mate and though I can still log in with Gnome.

    I think the easiest course of action here is to install and activate lightdm first, then do the upgrade to 8.5. Everything just works.