Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

potentials · 2011-11-14 23:08:51

Updating using http://germ.winpe.com/archlinux/mate/i686/ repo gives the following error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package mate-file-manager-2011.11.10-2-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture

Looks like the entire database file http://germ.winpe.com/archlinux/mate/i686/mate.db is for x86_64 and not i686.

karol · 2011-11-15 00:21:21

potentials wrote:

Updating using http://germ.winpe.com/archlinux/mate/i686/ repo gives the following error:
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package mate-file-manager-2011.11.10-2-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
Looks like the entire database file http://germ.winpe.com/archlinux/mate/i686/mate.db is for x86_64 and not i686.

Actually, I don't see a 32-bit mate-file-manager-2011.11.10 package. The last updates to the 32-bit repo are still from 02-Nov even though the db is from 12-Nov.

clpc · 2011-11-15 17:49:11

I am just updating the germ.winpe.com server.
The x86_64 64bit repo is done and should be fine. Seemed to work okay for me but let me know if you have any problems.

I am in the process of updating the i686 32bit repo right at this moment and I will edit this post as soon as it is done.

EDITED: 15-11-2011 19:11 : The i686 32bit repo has now been updated and should work fine.

Sorry for problems and lack of action I have been unwell for a few days.

Clive.

Last edited by clpc (2011-11-15 19:12:22)

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-11-15 22:52:11

Not sure if there's something wrong with your repo or not. It might just be something wrong with my setup, but I ran pacman -Ss mate to see if there was anything new added and it didn't list "mate-desktop-environment" as installed.... I ran pacman -S mate-desktop environment and got this long series of errors:

[neruson@megatron ~]$ sudo pacman -S mate-desktop-environment
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): mate-cursor-0.0.0-1  mate-desktop-environment-0.0.0-13

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   0.20 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(2/2) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/08e8e1c95fe2fc01f976f1e063a24ccd exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/X_cursor exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/based_arrow_down exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/based_arrow_up exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/bottom_left_corner exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/bottom_right_corner exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/bottom_side exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/double_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/draft_large exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/draft_small exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/fleur exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/hand1 exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/hand2 exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/left_ptr exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/left_ptr_watch exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/left_side exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/ll_angle exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/question_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/right_ptr exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/right_side exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/sb_h_double_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/sb_right_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/sb_up_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/top_left_arrow exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/top_left_corner exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/top_right_corner exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/top_side exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/ul_angle exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/ur_angle exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/watch exists in filesystem
mate-cursor: /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors/xterm exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[neruson@megatron ~]$

Any thoughts?

EDIT: I'm running 64 bit Mate.

Last edited by Mr_ED-horsey (2011-11-15 22:52:29)

Perberos · 2011-11-16 01:01:31

About mate-document-viewer, after arch update:

[perberos@maxima Desktop]$ mate-document-viewer Love\ is\ War\ v2.PDF 

(mate-document-viewer:17865): AtrilDocument-WARNING **: libpoppler.so.18: no se puede abrir el fichero del objeto compartido: No existe el fichero o el directorio

(mate-document-viewer:17865): AtrilDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'pdfdocument' since file '/usr/lib/atril/3/backends/libpdfdocument.so' cannot be read.

(mate-document-viewer:17865): AtrilDocument-WARNING **: libpoppler.so.18: no se puede abrir el fichero del objeto compartido: No existe el fichero o el directorio

(mate-document-viewer:17865): AtrilDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'pdfdocument' since file '/usr/lib/atril/3/backends/libpdfdocument.so' cannot be read.

libpoppler.so.18: missing file. I am rebuilding the package.

mate-cursor was merged with mate-themes
mate-desktop-environment is out of date. sorry.

Last edited by Perberos (2011-11-16 01:28:56)

blindevil · 2011-11-16 07:23:11

Hello,
Yesterday after the update of mate repository, I installed mate. But I have a problem : when I put on my desktop the battery applet it says to me:
Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and the acpid daemon is running.

But my acpid daemon is running

Can you Help me?

Last edited by blindevil (2011-11-16 07:34:46)

schneida · 2011-11-16 17:05:37

@Perberos: I'm I missing something or is mate.db missing for moth x86_64 and i686? Also, the repository is INSANLY slow? Would it be an option to prohibit access to your main repository for the general public and redirect everybody to one of the mirrors? When trying to mirror your server I only get about 1-40 kb/s and downloads often fail (takes more than two or three repetitions to download a 4 MB file because download stucks at some point)...

GSF1200S · 2011-11-16 20:19:38

While I commend the guy whos hosting this massive project for his balls of steel, I think the problems in this thread are an indication of why its generally a good idea to move on to a currently developed desktop. It sucks for sure; while I like OB, LXDE, and XFCE myself, Gnome 2 had its merits and I genuinely believe it to be at least 4 million times better than Gnome 3.

In regards to the above guy who has problems with "exists in filesystem", you can use -Sf (force- overwrites conflicts). You definitely should pay very close attention to what you are overwriting, but from time to time it can be necessary.

**EDIT** Aaaaaannd nevermind about -Sf- it looks as if it was resolved by the head man himself..

Last edited by GSF1200S (2011-11-16 20:21:47)

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-11-16 20:34:57

Actually, considering how new the project is, Mate has been surprisingly stable. The only problem that got in my way was the crashing in Caja and that's since been fixed and even before it was fixed clpc provided a temporary solution that worked fine. I'm happy with Mate. I never really liked any other DE besides Gnome 2 (Xfce is ok, but... meh...). I like Openbox, but I prefer to run stand alone window managers on a laptop or netbook. I just don't like having them on my desktop.

blindevil · 2011-11-16 21:54:58

Anybody can help me?

schneida · 2011-11-16 22:04:17

Just guessing: Is the daemon really running? Does the file exist? Do you have permissions to read it? If that's not the issue, either wait for perberos or another dev or try asking at the irc channel.

Last edited by schneida (2011-11-16 22:05:23)

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-11-16 22:16:15

@ schneida

About your speed problems. I don't even use the servers at matsusoft due to slow speeds and common down time, it's not actually listed in the Mate archwiki entry anymore, so I'm assuming it's advised against using it unless you're setting up your own repo. Here's my Mate entry in my /etc/pacman.conf file:

[mate]
Server = http://germ.winpe.com/archlinux/mate/$arch
Server = ftp://tridex.net/mate/$arch

My download speeds are pretty good with these. Hope that helps your speed issue.

@ blindevil

Is acpid installed? try running "pacman -S acpid" and/or make sure acpid is loaded in your deamons line in your /etc/rc.conf file

To manually start it run "/etc/rc.d/acpid start"

Last edited by Mr_ED-horsey (2011-11-16 22:27:58)

schneida · 2011-11-16 22:47:11

@Mr_ED-horsey: The problem is, that I'm maintaining the tridex.net server and it took me more than an hour today to update both arches to the newest version...

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-11-16 22:55:51

Ahh. Well, nevermind then... I didn't realize you were the one maintaining that server

Perberos · 2011-11-17 01:07:34

ticket created, https://github.com/perberos/mate-applets/issues/1

Perberos wrote:

Me gustaría que pacman pueda usar un metodo similar a torrent.

karol · 2011-11-17 01:16:54

Perberos wrote:

Perberos wrote:
Me gustaría que pacman pueda usar un metodo similar a torrent.

Not sure what do you meant here, some people had ideas for a distributed package manager, but I don't recall seeing any code.
You can create a torrent with the new packages but as far as I can tell, you've got some fast mirrors and the problem is that it takes a looong time for them to sync from the master server.

blindevil · 2011-11-17 06:58:38

@Mr_ED-horsey: thanks for the answer. Acpid is correctly installed, I put it in my Daemons array. And it start at the init of the system. If I do ls -l /var/run/ | grep acpid:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Nov 16 19:30 acpid.pid
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 16 19:30 acpid.socket

if I do cat /var/log/boot | grep acpid:

Wed Nov 16 07:59:59 2011: :: Starting acpid [BUSY] [DONE]
Wed Nov 16 10:02:24 2011: :: Starting acpid [BUSY] [DONE]
Thu Nov 17 07:48:48 2011: :: Starting acpid [BKGD] :: Starting Simple Login Manager [

and that's all

VlaoMao · 2011-11-17 07:48:14

neocrust wrote:

Video thumbnails not working (mate-video-player and gstreamer0.10-plugins installed).
Fix (bash script): http://pastebin.com/66rL4pnk

There was no thumbnails for video matroska. I fixed and replaced totem-video-thumbnailer to ffmpegthumbnailer, it is much faster
http://pastebin.com/And77HBs

Last edited by VlaoMao (2011-11-17 07:50:31)

Perberos · 2011-11-17 12:41:11

aur updated (only base)
matsusoft.com.ar's repo updated.

Last edited by Perberos (2011-11-17 12:55:32)

solar · 2011-11-17 15:45:26

xunil9025 wrote:

Hi
Can I ask why is it called Mate? Why not users-desktop-environment or simple-desktop-environment etc.....?
Mate sounds like something you can drink.

After posting I googled Mate and it's indeed something you can drink see wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_%28beverage%29
Sorry my English is bad.

WTF are you... on drugs? if it was called simple (Which is used in other projects) or users? LOL, a hella lot more peeps would ask "why is it called this and not mate, say?".

Seriously, that was one of the more uesless things posted on arch.

Oh... and I have been notching down notes for myself on a distributed package manager yes. Good to see others have this in mind. I started thinking of it because I was thinking of a way of finding, verifying and sharing native vs. generic flagged compiled binaries

Last edited by solar (2011-11-17 15:50:40)

karol · 2011-11-17 16:37:50

solar wrote:

Oh... and I have been notching down notes for myself on a distributed package manager yes. Good to see others have this in mind

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90970
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115731
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125426

clpc · 2011-11-17 17:28:56

Just finished updating the germ.winpe.com repos @ 17:17GMT on the 17-11-2011.

Honestly it really did finish at 17:17 on the 17th.... spooky.

I just did a -Syy -Syu on the 64 bit and all went well.

Clive.

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-11-17 17:54:43

blindevil wrote:

@Mr_ED-horsey: thanks for the answer. Acpid is correctly installed, I put it in my Daemons array. And it start at the init of the system. If I do ls -l /var/run/ | grep acpid:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Nov 16 19:30 acpid.pid
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 16 19:30 acpid.socket
if I do cat /var/log/boot | grep acpid:
Wed Nov 16 07:59:59 2011: :: Starting acpid [BUSY] [DONE]
Wed Nov 16 10:02:24 2011: :: Starting acpid [BUSY] [DONE]
Thu Nov 17 07:48:48 2011: :: Starting acpid [BKGD] :: Starting Simple Login Manager [
and that's all

Wow, that is weird. I can't say I really know what's wrong there. Maybe you should make your own thread. You'll probably have better luck finding an answer.

Perberos · 2011-11-19 09:50:20

acpid issue is cause by a recently arch update.
I have not idea why, the folder /proc/acpid/battery/ is gone.
modprobe battery do not help.

clpc · 2011-11-22 11:03:38

I have just updated the germ.winpe.com x86_64 and i686 repos @ 10:52GMT 22nd Nov 2011.

It appears that it is just mate-document-viewer that has bee updated.

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