newest release is borked in many ways

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newest release is borked in many ways

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Hi

Installed what I thought succesfully the latest release, to replace a borked ghostbsd, only to find that is more borked than the previos version.

Terminal will not open, software centre will not open, indeed very little will open and run.

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Mate or XFCE?
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I had same experience, but only one time. Just logged out and in, then it worked again. (MATE Desktop)
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That is weird, but I think I have seen that before when the network was down.
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ericbsd wrote: Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:56 amMate or XFCE?
Mate, both times, both with the present version/build and previous version/build.

It got worse as well, as with the previous version upon second login only desktop icons would show - no menu, no panels, nothing else.

I am downloading the xfce version as when I with the previous version installed xfce desktop as an alternative to mate that had no problems.

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Die you Check RAM and your disk (smartmontools) ?
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Vermilion wrote: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:45 am Die you Check RAM and your disk (smartmontools) ?
To be honest, unless what you mention is on the live dvd, then I would not be able to use these tools as nothing opens on the mate desktop - and its not really a desktop if only the background image and device/place icons show, and nothing opens anyway.

I went ahead and replaced with the XFCE version which runs fine.

So the Mate edition for this newest version and the prior version is borked - at least for myself.

For future reference an dell inspiron laptop, i7 cpu, 16gb ram, both an on board intel hdmi graphics and a radeon graphics card.
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I discover the problem https://github.com/ghostbsd/pc-sysinsta ... 891ec726be
This

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sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf hostname="${HOSTNAME}"
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sysrc -f ${FSMNT}/etc/rc.conf hostname="${HOSTNAME}"
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LightDM and MATE do not behave well without a hostname.
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ericbsd wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:06 pm LightDM and MATE do not behave well without a hostname.
Interesting - good for future reference.

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