On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 22:46 -0600, Robert Nichols via users wrote: > In my newly upgraded Fedora 42 VM, the greeter offers me only "GNOME" > and "GNOME Classic" even though dnf reports: > Package "mate-desktop-1.28.2-4.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Which greeter and desktop manager are installed? There was a recommendation to use lightdm with Mate (I don't know if that is, or was, valid advice). Too late, now, but before doing release updates, it might be worth doing a list of installed RPMs. Just to give you some clues to look for if the update throws a spanner in the works. Just looking at my Fedora 40 box: rpm -qa \*greeter\* slick-greeter-2.0.6-1.fc40.x86_64 slick-greeter-mate-2.0.6-1.fc40.noarch rpm -qa \*dm\*|sort and some manual pruning of irrelevant packages lists these lightdm-1.32.0-10.fc40.x86_64 lightdm-gobject-1.32.0-10.fc40.x86_64 lightdm-settings-2.0.5-1.fc40.noarch I suspect Fedora 41 was similar, and 42 might be. Is 42 released yet? I thought it's not quite yet. You might get better answers on the test list where people have been playing with it. When I installed 40 it was from the server spin (the only one I could get to boot), which is intended that it can run headless, so no desktop manager was pre-installed as far as I'm aware, and did a "dnf update" then a "dnf groupinstall MATE Desktop" afterwards. See if "dnf groupinstall MATE Desktop" offers some more packages you don't already have. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
