LMDE MATE not working
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LMDE MATE not working
I just discovered LMDE completely by accident. Neat concept, it does away with ubuntu and is auto-updating. But if it pooches, ya gotta fix it?
First I installed in VM under host LM13. Installs fine, but Synaptic & software manager are unable to fetch anything. Error msg claims problem with internet connection, but Firefox works just fine. Also, Preferences > Appearance works the first time, after it that crashes & requires system reset.
Next I tried installing to bare metal AMD Sabertooth R2.0 machine. Boot menu OK, but appears to hang at USB3 detection, both in standard & recovery mode.
Time wasted: ~2hrs
First I installed in VM under host LM13. Installs fine, but Synaptic & software manager are unable to fetch anything. Error msg claims problem with internet connection, but Firefox works just fine. Also, Preferences > Appearance works the first time, after it that crashes & requires system reset.
Next I tried installing to bare metal AMD Sabertooth R2.0 machine. Boot menu OK, but appears to hang at USB3 detection, both in standard & recovery mode.
Time wasted: ~2hrs
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Re: LMDE MATE not working
Synaptic error:
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W: Failed to fetch http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/pool/main/libg/libglademm2.4/libglademm-2.4-1c2a_2.6.7-2_amd64.deb
500 Internal Server Error
W: Failed to fetch http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/pool/main/g/gnome-color-chooser/gnome-color-chooser_0.2.5-1_amd64.deb
404 Not Found
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There's some issue with this mirror. Switch to another one using Software Sources (or mintsources from the terminal).
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Monsta wrote:There's some issue with this mirror. Switch to another one using Software Sources (or mintsources from the terminal).
Miracle This fixed my issue here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 0&t=161626
Maaany thanks
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Another problem: OS randomly starts opening x-caja-desktop windows indefinitely... hundreds of them.
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I just ran into this today and I'd love to know if there's a solution.Minterator wrote:Another problem: OS randomly starts opening x-caja-desktop windows indefinitely... hundreds of them.
I've been testing LMDE in Virtualbox for a while, and the worst problem I had was that sometimes the menu wouldn't appear -- there would be no menu button in the taskbar. But I had also experimented with a lot of themes -- a LOT of themes -- so I assumed that I had somehow broken it with a bad theme. But it always came back if I restarted.
Two days ago I installed LMDE to a partition. Everything seemed OK until today when suddenly I got the infinite x-caja-desktop windows. I don't even know what I was doing when it happened. I managed to log out and back in, when not only did I get the infinite windows again (NOT the TEN windows that I keep seeing bug reports about when trying to search for this problem, an infinite number!), but also the menu button was missing! I shutdown the system by opening a terminal by right-clicking on the desktop and quickly dragging it to a corner that wasn't being covered by caja windows. I rebooted to Windows and haven't gone back since to see if it's going to happen every time. But it's very frustrating that other than you, NOBODY seems to be reporting this same problem.
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It happens when you click on something in caja. A bad loop in the code.Jim Shaffer wrote:I just ran into this today and I'd love to know if there's a solution.Minterator wrote:Another problem: OS randomly starts opening x-caja-desktop windows indefinitely... hundreds of them.
I've been testing LMDE in Virtualbox for a while, and the worst problem I had was that sometimes the menu wouldn't appear -- there would be no menu button in the taskbar. But I had also experimented with a lot of themes -- a LOT of themes -- so I assumed that I had somehow broken it with a bad theme. But it always came back if I restarted.
Two days ago I installed LMDE to a partition. Everything seemed OK until today when suddenly I got the infinite x-caja-desktop windows. I don't even know what I was doing when it happened. I managed to log out and back in, when not only did I get the infinite windows again (NOT the TEN windows that I keep seeing bug reports about when trying to search for this problem, an infinite number!), but also the menu button was missing! I shutdown the system by opening a terminal by right-clicking on the desktop and quickly dragging it to a corner that wasn't being covered by caja windows. I rebooted to Windows and haven't gone back since to see if it's going to happen every time. But it's very frustrating that other than you, NOBODY seems to be reporting this same problem.
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Today's update of Caja (1.6.2-3+lmde) should hopefully fix the issue with these x-caja-desktop windows.
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Thanks for this info, this has been happening randomly to me. I will update later today.Monsta wrote:Today's update of Caja (1.6.2-3+lmde) should hopefully fix the issue with these x-caja-desktop windows.
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I am glad it worked for you !
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Drop-drop files in caja doesn't work either. Copies one file/dir then stops.
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Re: LMDE MATE - Caja window driving me CRAZY(er)!
I have just installed Mint 13, 64 bit, MATE desktop, fully up-to-date, and I am still having this annoying issue where the caja desktop window periodically shows up. One instance only, but it shows up.Windowsfree2013 wrote:since the update, i have not had this issue
I was messing with Mint 16, and the Mate desktop there did not appear to have this issue (AFAIK), but in 13 its a pain in the tush.
I've tried editing the conf file and setting auto restart to false. One poster in another thread suggested adding "--sync", but didn't specify where or how.
Viz.: https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/100
Synaptic shows Caja fully up-to-date as of this instant date (April 20th, 2014).
Any ideas short of two sticks of dynamite or a 12 gage double-barreled shotgun?
(I'd really prefer to use either one of those on my M$ box that needs a bare-metal reinstall every year or so just to clean out the cruft!)
What say ye?
Jim (J.R.)
Update:
A workaround that seems to work for me - at least it has so far - is to select the session selector at login, and select "Xclient Script" instead of Mate. I'd like to know if this works for anyone else too.
This is really annoying, and I'd like to see a permenant, permentant fix.
Jim "JR"
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