[SOLVED] Post-install woes

[tarazed]

Settling in with Mageia2 after installation on four machines. The
installations went very smoothly in general and also the subsequent
updates. Post-install problems have occurred, some possibly due to
finger trouble.

Unresolved problems:
GNOME Classic, gdm, tcsh

1) On logout and restart (at the login screen) the user is prompted for
the root password. The message says that administrator privileges are
required to reboot while other users are logged in. No other users on
the system. This does not happen with kdm, but I prefer gdm.
This has been reported as a bug #5526 for GNOME3 and there does not
appear to be any resolution yet.

2) Mounted volumes and desktop icons do not appear on the desktop
until gnome-tweak-tool is used to allow the file manager to manage the
desktop. No bug report for this as far as I can see.

3) The user cannot unmount volumes. It used to be possible to
right-click on the desktop icon and select unmount and unmounted it
was. Now a message pops up to say that the user does not have the
right to dismount the medium. Permissions look alright, viz;

[lcl@belexeuli ~]$ ls -l /run/media/lcl
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 7 lcl root 4096 Jun 8 16:36 Sirius

No bug reports for this either.

The other thing that happens is that some of the installations switch
from the Plymouth boot screen to terminal output as soon as the
boot sequence is initiated. No bubbling cauldron. This is not really
a problem because the system comes up OK.

Has anybody else experienced any similar problems with GNOME?

[doktor5000]

3) The user cannot unmount volumes. It used to be possible to
right-click on the desktop icon and select unmount and unmounted it
was. Now a message pops up to say that the user does not have the
right to dismount the medium.

Can't really help you with the GNOME-specific issues, but this one sounds a lot like viewtopic.php?p=5136#p5136

[tarazed]

My case was a lot simpler, as noted in a separate thread. I had to make sure that fstab contained "user,defaults" for the medium in question if it were left connected through reboots or else ensure that it was unmounted and disconnected at boot time.

Thanks for your comments, and I still wonder when you manage to get any sleep.

Cheers

Len

[doktor5000]

Thanks for your comments, and I still wonder when you manage to get any sleep.

Sleep is overestimated a lot nowadays

BTW: Please open separate threads for the other issues, and mark this one as [SOLVED]. Thanks.