Mate appears to be crashing on startup. Screen stays frozen on wallpaper

wooper91

Hello all,

I’m new to BSD I’ve had some experience with Linux and when trying to see what some people suggested as a distribution for me someone actually suggested maybe I look at freeBSD as well so I’m here 🙂

I got ghostBSD installed fairly easily and all was good, I’m an nvidia user so I had to install the nvidia drivers which also went smoothly. Then I updated the system and at that point when I would log back in my desktop would be frozen

I thought it was weird so I tried a few times and each time I got a message about the workspace switcher wasn’t working and the message was flickering. Other times I didn’t get the message but my dock would be flickering and nothing would render on it and nothing was interactable not even the right click menu appeared

I decided to go into tty and run mate-session and that yielded the “cannot open display” error. I’m hoping someone can assist so I can get going with GhostBSD and see if it’s something I wanna stick with.

My guess is something that updated broke but not sure what. I did install nvidia drivers before updating so idk if that caused any issues :/

Robin

The Xfce spin doesn't seem to have as many issues... I've been using the unofficial Xfce community edition from the start and it's been pretty much trouble-free. I know very little about MATE except that it's a fork of Gnome 2. So I'm just guessing that GTK 2 and GTK 3 have some conflicts.