linuxmint-18-MATE-amd64-201606041542

clem
  7 years ago
Architecture: amd64
Type: MATE
Status: Rejected
Comments
clem 7 years ago


Rejecting this ISO. New one coming up.



cpatrick08 7 years ago

Qtconfig won't work for qt5 which is what Ubuntu 16.04.uses, so it's upstream problem.


clem 7 years ago


About qtconfig, do we need to care or is it upstream?



clem 7 years ago


The partial fix (as it is implemented in Ubuntu for instance) seems to cover most sudo cases.



clem 7 years ago


Regarding systemd, it's been 2 years now and I don't know any other distribution other than Linux Mint which fixed the issue in su mode. Maybe we need to move on, consider that almost everybody runs in sudo mode, and leave the runtime dir collision bug alive.



clem 7 years ago



  • Adwaita and other metacity themes now only provide metacity-3.xml files, which MATE isn't compatible with. So that's upstream from us.


  • I can't reproduce the issue about the vbox resolution, nor the shutdown sequence.


  • We've always used font 9 for applications.


  • Backports are rightfully enabled in this release, but we need to edit the warning message in mintsources.


Monsta 7 years ago



More useless packages to remove:




libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-dkms gnome-session-canberra policykit-1-gnome



Monsta 7 years ago


Prefs dialog of mintUpdate has no vertical scrollbar where it should have it:



http://i.imgur.com/xBiPDmt.png



Monsta 7 years ago


There's a weird file in my local autostart dir:



monsta@mint18 ~ $ cat .config/autostart/xfce-autostart-wm.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Version=0.9.4

Type=Application

Name=Window Manager

Comment=Window Manager Startup

Exec=xfce-autostart-wm

OnlyShowIn=XFCE;

StartupNotify=false

Terminal=false

Hidden=false


 



I've noticed it because of this warning:



mate-session[6246]: EggSMClient-WARNING: Invalid Version string '0.9.4' in /home/monsta/.config/autostart/xfce-autostart-wm.desktop

 



Monsta 7 years ago


Minor inconsistency: Synaptic entry in the left pane of mintMenu is apparently set to run it via gksu, while the menu entry in Applications pane uses synaptic-pkexec.



Monsta 7 years ago


Follow-up to libpam-systemd bug: running mintInstall via side pane of mintMenu is a reliable way to reproduce the bug (provided gksu mode is set to su, of course - sudo mode isn't affected).



Monsta 7 years ago


Useless package installed: gnome-session-bin (has gnome-session-* binaries).



Ancient package installed: libgnome2-bin (has gnome-open binary). In addition, there are related ancient packages:



libbonoboui2-0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-perl libgnomeui-0 python-gnome2 libgnome-menu-3-0 libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-common libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra gkbd-capplet



All of them can be safely removed.



Monsta 7 years ago


Config tool for Qt apps won't run:



monsta@mint18 ~ $ qtconfig

qtconfig: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qtconfig': No such file or directory


 



Monsta 7 years ago


On session start, mintUpload doesn't run because of missing file. Its .desktop file is set to run non-existing binary:



/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpload/launch-file-uploader.py



Monsta 7 years ago


Hmm, libpam-systemd isn't patched (upstream version is used). So I can reproduce the old bug. I've set the mode to "su" in gksu-properties tool and opened a text file as root:



 gksu xed /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list



 



Then /run/user/1000/dconf/user file instantly got owned by root:root.



It's not always reproducible on the first try, and not always reproducible several times in a row, but it happens anyway.


Monsta 7 years ago


Interesting, both Sarah and Xenial backport repos are active by default, and there's no checkbox for them in mintSources anymore, but the usual warning message in mintSources still mentions backports (no matter if I run it with English or Russian locale).



Monsta 7 years ago


Minor warning:



 



monsta@mint18 ~ $ LC_ALL=C mate-appearance-properties



(mate-appearance-properties:2389): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",


 



Monsta 7 years ago


Booting into installed system, again, 800x600. I also don't get the option to change screen resolution to match the host screen resolution. Weird. VirtualBox guest additions are installed and running, but apparently don't do their job for some reason.



Monsta 7 years ago


Rebooting after installing showed me completely white screen with no text. Of course I remember I need to press Enter there to continue rebooting, but it would be nice to show the usual message about that...



Monsta 7 years ago


For some reason, "Switzerland" kb layout isn't translated to Russian, making it appear before all the other layouts in Ubiquity. Dunno if it's fixed upstream, need to check and maybe pull latest .po files from there.



Monsta 7 years ago


As usual, the default font size is 9, making me sitting close to monitor... Changing it to 10 didn't cause any problems, so I still don't get why it's so small by default.



Monsta 7 years ago


Live DVD booted with 800x600 resolution in my virtualbox - no detection for 1024x768 or 1280x1024 availability? Setting resolution to 1024x768 manually (via mate-display-properties) worked fine.



tux-sven 7 years ago


Menu bar is default missing in Mozilla Firefox



exploder 7 years ago


High Contrast and Adwata themes dispay an error but they both appear to work.