[Done] No cinnamon panel after upgrade to mageia 7

[JJF]

Doktor5000

Please clarify which files.
Both journalctl and xsession from cinnamon direct boot exceed the number of allowed lines. How to attach? I can Zip and submit. Would it be OK?

If .Xauthority content is required, please guide me the exact way to get it.

And a question: Is it possible that previously customized xrandr supersedes the cinnamon monitor config files?

JJF

[doktor5000]

Please clarify which files.
Both journalctl and xsession from cinnamon direct boot exceed the number of allowed lines. How to attach? I can Zip and submit. Would it be OK?

You already mentioned which files, I don't get what you need clarified there?

Regarding attaching them, below the forum editor (only available in Full editor, not via quick reply), switch to the tab "Upload attachment".
Upload your files, then when finished, click in the editor window where you want your file to display, and click the button "Place inline".

And a question: Is it possible that previously customized xrandr supersedes the cinnamon monitor config files?

Depending at what time that xrandr config is loaded, yes that could be possible. Apart from that, the cinnamon monitor config files actually are also basically only customized xrandr configurations.

[JJF]

While I was waiting for a reply in the past few days, I tried to make some progress on my own.
Knowing that cinnamon is a derivative of Mate, I "urpmi task-mate" to restore the previously (long time ago) removed Mate from my box .
To make the story short, I booted cinnamon after installing mate, and the desktop , the menu and panel(s) were there, with some less serious deficiencies.
I still have to fine tune the current cinnamon DE to bring it as close as possible to what I used to see before upgrading to Mageia 7.
I will post more info if I'll make some progress.
jjf

[JJF]

Doktor5000
It was too early to celebrate as even after installing Mate, the cinnamon DE behave oddly

I attached the requested files

More info:
The major misbehaviours are: 1. Message

Cinnamon just crashed

after boot
2. Panel looks so much similar to Mate panel and not was used to be befor the upgrade
3. Desktop does not display the icons I used to se before the upgrade. Essentially it is empty
4. No move or resize of applications windows . The windows cover only part of the screen
5. Applicaions windows cover each other . Can't move the windows around
Your advice will be appreciated
jjf

[doktor5000]

.xsession-errors and journalctl logs seems to be an one when you ran KDE, you need to create/copy away the files when you actually started cinnamon and when it doesn't work.
Then attach them later here.

[JJF]

When I boot directly into cinnamon, the desktop displays the flash screen, only. There is no panel neither menu, and I am unable to do anything.
I can send the required files only if I login after logout from plasma, then I can access the console. If this is OK, I'll upload the files later.
JJF

[JJF]

Doktor5000

Cinnamon xsession-error and journal files uploaded


jjf

[doktor5000]

When I boot directly into cinnamon, the desktop displays the flash screen, only. There is no panel neither menu, and I am unable to do anything.
I can send the required files only if I login after logout from plasma, then I can access the console.

No, sorry but that doesn't help. And yes, even if you don't have a panel, you can still copy over those files in a tty.
Once you started your cinnamon session, switch to another tty via e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then login as root, and write the complete journal log to a text file using e.g.

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journalctl -ab > /tmp/journal.txt

and afterwards upload that text file here (or pastebin it or similar). Same for xsession-errors.

The journal file you uploaded contains this error, as mentioned previously:

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Jul 21 13:19:24 localhost.localdomain kernel: cinnamon[6497]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f772c311eee sp 00007ffee14469a0 error 4 in libupower-glib.so.3.0.1[7f772c310000+13000]
Jul 21 13:19:24 localhost.localdomain kernel: Code: 74 05 48 39 02 74 0f 48 89 c6 48 89 df e8 9a ef ff ff 85 c0 74 46 e8 51 f2 ff ff 48 89 df 48 89 c6 e8 e6 ef ff ff 48 8b 40 18 <48> 8b 38 48 c7 00 00 00 00 00 48 85 ff 74 05 e8 de f3 ff ff 48 8b

Apart from that, I don't see any obvious issues regarding your cinnamon session.

[JJF]

Doktor5000
I finnaly managed to obtain the required files and uploaded them
Hope you can make progress and help
JJF

[doktor5000]

I don't see any obvious issues. Last entry from cinnamon is this one, as mentioned above already several times:

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Jul 22 16:58:24 localhost.localdomain kernel: cinnamon[3134]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fd26c637eee sp 00007fffbc0284c0 error 4 in libupower-glib.so.3.0.1[7fd26c636000+13000]
Jul 22 16:58:24 localhost.localdomain kernel: Code: 74 05 48 39 02 74 0f 48 89 c6 48 89 df e8 9a ef ff ff 85 c0 74 46 e8 51 f2 ff ff 48 89 df 48 89 c6 e8 e6 ef ff ff 48 8b 40 18 <48> 8b 38 48 c7 00 00 00 00 00 48 85 ff 74 05 e8 de f3 ff ff 48 8b

What happens if you select Cinnamon (Software Rendering) session in your login manager?

Can you show the output of

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rpm -qa|grep -iE "cinnamon|upower-glib"

[JJF]

1. cinnamon (software rendering) acts similar to cinnamon DE before I installed mate.
Desktop icons are there together with 2 EMPTY PANELS AT THE BOTTOM OF BOTH SCREENS.
Trying to open firefox using the terminal I got the message:

Problem with your thumbnail cash

[If I login to cinnamon as a new / other than my "normal" user, EVERY THING IS PERFECT]

2.

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rpm -qa|grep -iE "cinnamon|upower-glib" > /home/jacob/tmp/out1.log


cat out1.log
cinnamon-screensaver-4.0.3-1.mga7
lib64cinnamon-screensaver0-4.0.3-1.mga7
cinnamon-settings-daemon-4.0.3-1.mga7
cinnamon-menus-4.0.0-1.mga7
cinnamon-translations-4.0.2-1.mga7
task-cinnamon-4.0-4.mga7
cinnamon-desktop-4.0.1-4.mga7
task-cinnamon-minimal-4.0-4.mga7
lib64cinnamon-screensaver-gir1.0-4.0.3-1.mga7
cinnamon-control-center-4.0.1-1.mga7
lib64upower-glib3-0.99.10-1.mga7
lib64cinnamon-desktop4-4.0.1-4.mga7
cinnamon-4.0.10-2.mga7
cinnamon-session-4.0.0-2.mga7
lib64cinnamon-desktop-gir1.0-4.0.1-4.mga7
cinnamon-applet-blueberry-1.2.5-5.mga7

3. The current cinnamon desktop is full of odd behaviour as I mentioned in an earlier reply : Unable to move or resize open windows such as the Terminal window or firefox window(s). When I want to close an open firefox window, the file>drop down menu was displayed for a fraction of a second and disappeared.
The panel is actually gnome panel and not cinnamon's.

4. If I filter journalctl -b in cinnamon DE logged in as "normal" user to display either "error" or "failed" , there are many of them. Would it be helpful if I provide these lines?

JJF

[doktor5000]

Packages look fine.

4. If I filter journalctl -b in cinnamon DE logged in as "normal" user to display either "error" or "failed" , there are many of them. Would it be helpful if I provide these lines?

You can certainly post them for others to take a look, but I'm not sure whether they would be helpful to figure out why cinnamon is broken for the other user.

[JJF]

Errors reported by journalctl -b

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journalctl -b | grep 'error' > /home/jacob/tmp/cinna_error.log
cat /home/jacob/tmp/cinna_error.log
Aug 01 17:10:00 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd_pico[1511]: segfault at 7f7900a5e010 ip 00007f7902297d1e sp 00007ffc161b0768 error 4 in libttspico.so.0.0.0[7f7902295000+3b000]
Aug 01 17:10:58 localhost.localdomain sddm-helper[2621]: gkr-pam: error looking up user information
Aug 01 17:11:00 localhost.localdomain sddm[2026]: Authentication error: "Authentication failure"
Aug 01 17:11:30 localhost.localdomain kwalletd5[2669]: Wallet failed to get opened by PAM, error code is -9
Aug 01 17:11:59 localhost.localdomain kernel: cinnamon[2981]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f33f011eeee sp 00007ffdfdeadb30 error 4 in libupower-glib.so.3.0.1[7f33f011d000+13000]
Aug 01 17:14:27 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[3899]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 178, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:14:27 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[3899]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 179, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:15:32 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4092]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 178, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:15:32 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4092]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 179, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:15:53 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4155]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 178, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:15:53 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4155]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 179, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:16:14 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4215]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 178, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:16:14 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4215]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 179, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:16:35 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4297]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 178, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:16:35 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[4297]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 179, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:31:20 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[6992]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 178, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
Aug 01 17:31:20 localhost.localdomain baloo_file_extractor[6992]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 179, resource id: 52428816, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0


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journalctl -b | grep 'fail' > /home/jacob/tmp/cinna_fail.log
cat /home/jacob/tmp/cinna_fail.log
Aug 01 17:09:41 localhost.localdomain systemd-vconsole-setup[569]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 01 17:09:44 localhost.localdomain systemd-vconsole-setup[652]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 01 17:09:44 localhost.localdomain systemd-vconsole-setup[651]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 01 17:09:44 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[618]: Process '/usr/sbin/vbetool udevpost 0000:00:02.0' failed with exit code 1.
Aug 01 17:09:45 localhost.localdomain systemd-vconsole-setup[736]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 01 17:09:46 localhost.localdomain systemd-vconsole-setup[820]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 01 17:09:47 localhost.localdomain systemd-vconsole-setup[835]: KD_FONT_OP_GET failed while trying to get the font metadata: Invalid argument
Aug 01 17:10:14 localhost.localdomain colord[2171]: failed to get edid data: EDID length is too small
Aug 01 17:10:15 localhost.localdomain colord[2171]: failed to get session [pid 1966]: No data available
Aug 01 17:10:16 localhost.localdomain colord[2171]: failed to get session [pid 1966]: No data available
Aug 01 17:10:17 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[2048]: Process 'net_action' failed with exit code 1.
Aug 01 17:10:17 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[2048]: Process 'net_create_ifcfg' failed with exit code 1.
Aug 01 17:10:17 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[2048]: Process 'net_action' failed with exit code 1.
Aug 01 17:10:58 localhost.localdomain sddm-helper[2621]: pam_unix(sddm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Aug 01 17:11:00 localhost.localdomain sddm-helper[2621]: [PAM] authenticate: Authentication failure
Aug 01 17:11:00 localhost.localdomain sddm[2026]: Authentication error: "Authentication failure"
Aug 01 17:11:17 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-daemon[2665]: failed to unlock login keyring on startup
Aug 01 17:11:30 localhost.localdomain net_applet[3023]: failed to acquire monitor on DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.mageia.monitoring was not provided by any .service files
Aug 01 17:11:30 localhost.localdomain kwalletd5[2669]: Wallet failed to get opened by PAM, error code is -9
Aug 01 17:11:30 localhost.localdomain dbus-daemon[2769]: [session uid=500 pid=2769] Activated service 'org.kde.kwalletd' failed: Failed to execute program org.kde.kwalletd: No such file or directory
Aug 01 17:11:34 localhost.localdomain blueman-mechani[3259]: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed


Looking for further help
JJF

[JJF]

As I experiences system deterioration after steps that I have taken, I solved the problem as described below:

1. Boot "ubunto desktop.iso". It can recognize external USB disks as well as all existing partitions.
2. Mounted all partitions and an externl 1TB disk. Formatted the external disk
3. Backed up personal data to 1TB external hdd both from Windows as well as from Mageia partitions: cp -R //mnt..../* //mnt/External...
2. Restarted using Parted.iso
3. Removed Mageia Partition and reboot
4. Installed Windows from the original Windows distribution disk into the existing Windows partition
5. Create Windows partitions in unalocated disk space
6. Restarted with Mageia 7 64.iso
7. Installed Mageia_Plasma from ISO dvd into existing Windows' partition
8. Reboot to verify that the initial menu included both Windows and Mageia
9. Selected Mageia DT Plasma environment
10. urpmi task-cinnamon
11. Connected External 1TB disk that holds the personal data
12. cp -r //mnt/external/Mageia_Files.../* /home/user/
13. cp -r //mnt/Extenal/Windows_Files../* .../Windows_Partitions/Documents and Settings/User/...?
14. Now I am in the process of restoring packages and applications that has disappeared during the process (ie, add scanner, add USB blutooth donglr and the like)

Very simple

Thanks to all who helped
JJF

[doktor5000]

Please also mark the thread as [DONE], thanks in advance.

[JJF]

[Done]

[isadora]

Would you please mark this topic [DONE]?
You can do so by editing the title/subject of the first message in the topic.
Place [DONE] in front of subject/title.

Thanks ahead. Sorry for bothering you.

[JJF]

After fresh install I am still struggling with the following issues:
1. Epson v300 scanner setup (Which worked perfectly before upgrading to Mageia 7)
2. ML-1640 Samsung printer connected as USB to windows 10 workstation on the same LAN (Which worked perfectly before the upgrade)
3. Access windows 10 workstation files on the same LAN (Which I could before the fresh install)

Any help will be appreciated
JJF

[isadora]

Hint: open new topics for the different issues.
It is advised, to have new topics opened for different issues.