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Installing MATE DE from Salix repos

Hello there,

Installed MATE 1.4 based on the thread here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware-938148/

Basically, as root, I did

Code:

slapt-get --install-set mate

and my slapt-getrc contains:

Code:

SOURCE=ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/salix/i486/14.0/:PREFERRED

I think, I have installed all the necessary packages needed. Here's my output:

Code:

bash-4.2$ ls /var/log/packages | grep gv$

atkmm-2.22.6-i486-1gv

cairomm-1.10.0-i486-1gv

celt-0.11.1-i486-1gv

clearlooks-phenix-2.0.10-noarch-1gv

ffmpeg-0.11.2-i486-1gv

ffmpegthumbnailer-2.0.8-i486-1gv

ffmpegthumbnailer-caja-1.4.0-noarch-1gv

flash-plugin-11.2.202.297-i686-1gv

glibmm-2.32.1-i486-1gv

gnome-themes-standard-3.4.2-i486-1gv

gst-python-0.10.22-i486-1gv

gtkmm-2.24.2-i486-1gv

lame-3.99.5-i486-1gv

libass-0.10.0-i486-1gv

libgtop-2.28.4-i486-1gv

libmodplug-0.8.8.4-i486-1gv

libsigc++-2.2.10-i486-1gv

libunique-1.1.6-i486-2gv

libvpx-1.1.0-i486-1gv

mate-colors-icon-theme-1.0-noarch-1gv

mate-common-1.4.0-noarch-1gv

mate-conf-1.4.0-i486-1gv

mate-corba-1.4.0-i486-1gv

mate-icon-theme-faenza-1.4.0-noarch-1gv

mate-session-manager-1.4.0-i486-1gv

opencore-amr-0.1.3-i486-1gv

orc-0.4.16-i486-1gv

pangomm-2.28.4-i486-1gv

pyxdg-0.19-i486-2gv

schroedinger-1.0.11-i486-1gv

slkbuild-0.9.0-noarch-1gv

unico-1.0.2-i486-1gv

whaawmp-20120810-i486-1gv

x264-20120712-i486-1gv

xvidcore-1.3.2-i486-2gv

And I have not installed any packages from the other MATE effort, i.e., MSB project.

Code:

bash-4.2$ ls /var/log/packages | grep _msb

bash-4.2$

I added MATE to my xwmconfig, but nothing loads up when I choose MATE at login. I am stuck at the login screen blank wallpaper. Nothing happens! Very frustrating

Your thoughts on this are much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
surio.

You might start just by running mate-session as a normal user and check the console for hints. also see if there is anything interesting in /var/log/xorg.log (pretty sure its how its called).

Is there any spesific reason why picking up msb 1.4 instead of MSB which is 1.6 and should be more compatible for newer version of Slackware?

Hello willy,

Firstly, I appreciate what you did with the MSB project. It is great. Now coming to,

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr (Post 5005249)

Is there any spesific reason why picking up msb 1.4 instead of MSB which is 1.6 and should be more compatible for newer version of Slackware?

Mainly familiarity, mate (pun inended ;) ). I am a salix user, and know to get my way around salix repos. That is all.

If this doesn't work out at all, I might have a look at yours. :)

Hmmm, started MATE from the commandline.... Here's the output:

Black screen. CTRL+Alt+Bksp gave me this output.

Code:

Release Date: 2012-07-09

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: Slackware 14.0 Slackware Linux Project

Current Operating System: Linux surio-pc 3.2.45-smp #2 SMP Fri May 31 16:57:40 CDT 2013 i686

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda20

Build Date: 23 August 2012  02:27:55PM



Current version of pixman: 0.26.2

        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

        to make sure that you have the latest version.

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,

        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Aug  8 15:53:21 2013

(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

mate-session[2403]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'marco' of required component 'windowmanager'

mate-session[2403]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'mate-panel' of required component 'panel'

mate-session[2403]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'caja' of required component 'filemanager'

** Message: applet now removed from the notification area

Loading configuration plugins

blueman-applet version 1.22 starting

Stale PID, overwriting

Using file config backend

Using file config backend

Using file config backend



.....:<......:<.. Some HP data .......>:......>: --------





mate-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

blueman-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

xinit: connection to X server lost



waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

ATM, I am clueless. Ayone else has thoughts? They are appreciated.

have you tried using other DE? XFCE? KDE? Does it gives you the same error message?

Hello Willy,

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr (Post 5005624)

have you tried using other DE? XFCE? KDE? Does it gives you the same error message?

Yes. I use KDE as the default DE for Slackware, and it works w/o any errors. :)

I think this is MATE spesific problems and since i didn't use MATE 1.4 from Salix, i couldn't reproduce the error and unable to help you out on this issue.
my only suggestion is to get rid of all MATE packages from Salix repository and try to use the one we provided on MSB and see if it helps

one more suggestion before switching to MSB: try to test this on a new user. Sometimes a polluted environment can cause some problems. I experienced this on MATE 1.6 as well.

In the end, the issue turned out to be something totally unrelated to X or servers or libs or whatever! :(

While I installed slapt-get to help me with salix repo access, I had installed the 64 bit version first. Then, realised my mistake, removed and reinstalled the 32 bit version.

The slaptget-getrc file from the 64 bit version was retained, and the 32 bit one was left in there as getrc.new! I did not look into the dir contents, but simply edited the slaptget-getrc file to add my repos. The 64-bit getrc file contained the following offending line:

Code:

EXCLUDE=....snip..... ,.*-[0-9]+dl$,i[3456]86

^^ Telling slapt-get to omit all the 32 bit libs!

Making the 32bit getrc file as default, pulling in a whole lot of packages that was previously omitted. Long story short, MATE 1.4 works.

My many sincere thanks to @gapan, salixos creator and lead developer, for patiently going through the steps with me on IRC and catching the offending line. Without him, it would have been a spiral of never ending wild goose chase!