Description of problem: I installed 6. Twice. The first time, when I did all the updates, the lock screen "could not function" and then the wireless turned off and thus the updates failed and I could never get the wireless to see ANY networks even after finishing the updates on wire and trying to refresh the networks. The second time, I turned off the lock screen before doing any updates and all installed fine. I then go to change the desktop theme and now I wait TWENTY MINUTES AFTER LOGIN to see a desktop. REALLY? I keep trying to change it back to what it was, but I still wait for the desktop. I get the welcome screen, click on close and I have a mouse arrow on a black screen for TWENTY MINUTES. On this last login, the CLOSE button is not on the welcome screen. I closed it with the X and now I have the black screen. Now I don't have any sound either after the desktop finally shows up. I don't even have the shutdown anymore. I have logout first and then the shutdown and reboot buttons don't even work either. I have to power button it off. All I really wanted to do was have the desktop have a rotating set of pictures. The machine is no screamer. ASUS Eee 1215B with an 64GB SSD and 4GB. It was doing FINE when the default theme was there. Now it completely sucks. Now I get to start all over, for the THIRD time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Installed 6 and did all the updates. How reproducible: I have tried to change back to the default desktop with no luck. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do without more information. I suppose you installed Mageia 6, then rebooted and then updated? Which Desktop Environment (Gnome, KDE/Plasma5, Xfce, ....) do you have? After your second attempt, after installing all the updates, did you reboot before trying to change your desktop theme?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => marja11
Yes, I rebooted after installing all the updates. I have the Plasma desktop. I just installed 6 on my 1st gen i5 laptop. It works just fine. Changed themes, put the desktop slideshow into effect. That other one in an AMD APU E350 dual core 1.6GHtz processor. It just can't handle it, I guess. Thanks, Robert
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
I am impressed with the update process. My original 6 DVD installs and the first few updates happen, reboot, and then 848 are installed. One suggestion about that. Make the default for screen locking off. One time it locked and sat there. I had left the room. I came back and did the loginctl thing to unlock the sessions but then the wireless cut out and some updates were corrupted. I rebooted but could not get the wireless to see any networks. I finished the updates on ethernet, but the wireless would not see any networks so I had to start over. Thanks, Robert
OK. I just spent that last four hours redoing this little Eee PC. Everything went on just fine. Install basic setup. Reboot. Installed 7 updates. Reboot. Install 848 updates. Reboot. Install some games and cheeze. Reboot. Install LibreOffice 6. Reboot. Take off LibreOffice 5. Reboot. All good. I then shut it down and unplugged the USB CD ROM drive. When I turned it back on, it took forever to boot up. The welcome screen came on, I hit close and saw a black screen for ten minutes. I turned it off. I plugged in the CDROM drive, it has the Mageia 6 DVD in it. The machine came up fine. I ejected the DVD leaving the drive connected and rebooted. I am now watching the Mageia screen with the bubbles. It is again taking FOREVER. The login screen has finally come up. I put in my password and now I see the mouse as an X for a minute whereas before it just goes to the KDE startup. Now the welcome screen is up with nothing behind it. I can hit close here or sit and wait. 3:19PM. 3:26. The desktop is finally up. I was on the Oxygen theme. Now that I am on the desktop, the buttons for Shutdown, Reboot, etc... are gone. All I have is Logout. The login screen in now up. I click on Shutdown and nothing happens. Finally, I wait 5 minutes and click shutdown, and it shuts down. The Mageia DVD is back in the drive. The bubbles did not even get through three cycles whereas without the DVD, I lost track of counting. Login instantly goes to the KDE progress bar and then I have the desktop. Something is wrong with this. My i5 laptop does not do this after I took the DVD out. This is telling me that I always have to have the Mageia 6 DVD attached for this machine. That is not how it should be.
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENEDResolution: FIXED => (none)
When it FINALLY comes up, there is no sound either.
With the eeepc you are probably hitting bug 23060... There is a kernel-4.14.44-2 currently in updates_testing that will resolve that bug...
CC: (none) => tmb
OK. So here is something that might interest you. I have two of these Eee PCs. They have identical installs on them except for LibreOffice 6 on the slow one. Both have kernel 4.14.40. The one that boots like "molasses in winter time" has a 64GB SSD and the other has its original 300GB hard drive. This slow down happened before I put L.O. 6 on anyway. The one with the hard drive boots up fine, sound works without the DVD attached.
I found comment (https://www.muylinux.com/2018/05/31/gnome-tenemos-un-problema/#comment-3926398822) in MuyLinux (a Spanish site of News about Linux -manly Ubuntu- and FLOSS) about a issue wit KDE 5.12 and the change of wallpapers so maybe is that the bug
Is this bug still valid with kernel-4.14.78-1.mga6?
@katnatek I am looking at old bugs. Is this one still 'alive' for you (if you are still with us, Mageia 7)? Did you follow Thomas' advice in comment 6 and advance?
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
No replies, so closing as OLD
Resolution: (none) => OLDStatus: REOPENED => RESOLVED