How to fix cinnamon not working

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

Hello,

• OpenMandriva Lx version: *

• ROME 24.12

• Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
  Cinnamon

• Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
  Every time I try to use cinnamon it comes out as a black screen. Yes, I’ve read similar posts and know that this is a common issue, but I would like to know how to fix it.

• Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…): *

• I currently use ROME and have the cooker repository enabled

[rugyada]

@asfreeman9

I currently use ROME and have the cooker repository enabled

Hi,
It’s not a good idea to mix repository. If you want cooker, just install cooker
Or switch from ‘Rolling’ to ‘Cooker’ in Software Repository Selector.
Or disable cooker repo.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

Yeah I know, I tried to download a cooker iso instead but the download link doesn’t really work, I tried using cinnamon without cooker but that didn’t work well for me either

[rugyada]

@asfreeman9

I tried to download a cooker iso instead but the download link doesn’t really work

Please tell which ISO you want to download. I might help.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

I’m a bit of a dummy on this and couldn’t get any file to download

[tdkuhl]

I downloaded a couple of the cinnamon isos and neither will boot up properly. Trying to install cinnamon as a secondary DE does not work either. Just goes into fallback mode.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

Oh, okay, Thanks for the info, Did you make sure to write the isos in DD image mode?

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

I am trying to reproduce what you and some other users are seeing. I agree that our pages are seen as to complicated. I am not the right person to design such pages though, that is better left to @rugyada.

@asfreeman9

I’m a bit of a dummy on this and couldn’t get any file to download

I click on ROME LXQt x86_64

Click on the most recent entry at the top:

Those links will download here because I have done it and tested that .iso.

So what am I missing in trying to reproduce your results? Perhaps how you are downloading vs. how I do it. They will download from Firefox but not Brave I know that. (Unless Firefox has changed something in recent weeks)

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

This is one approach to downloading OMLx iso.

Downloading the iso is too complicated

Downloading OMLx isos will work in Firefox. I do not know why it would not work in other browser but it doesn’t in some. I do not download using any browser myself, seems like we see less problems with downloads in terminal using curl, wget, or aria2c. I use aria2c. In Brave (or any other browser) right click on the actual .iso file and select ‘copy clean link’. (Or select ‘copy link address’, either should work) Open terminal and navigate to the directory you want to download to. Type aria2c …

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

@rugyada

Basically one of these three, but the links don’t do anything

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

Edit: Personally I do not like downloading large files with any browser and I use aria2c in terminal.

If you are in Firefox or Firefox based browser click on the .iso link and download. That won’t work in Chromium, Brave, or Chrome based browsers. There you would right click on the .iso file, select copy link, open terminal and use one of these curl, wget, or aria2c like this.

aria2c http://file-store.openmandriva.org/api/v1/file_stores/4ee954a8408291040e004a7fbe62199a35db857c

or

wget http://file-store.openmandriva.org/api/v1/file_stores/4ee954a8408291040e004a7fbe62199a35db857c

I am guessing that our links in ABF do not work in Chrome based stuff is because the links are http instead of https. I have asked OM devs about this and am awaiting an answerl

Hope this helps.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

I tried logging in but it isn’t sending a confirmation email

[rugyada]

@asfreeman9

I tried logging in

No need to login to download the iso files.
abf account is just for developers.

[rugyada]

@asfreeman9

Basically one of these three

Copy/paste command in console:

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$ aria2c http://file-store.openmandriva.org/api/v1/file_stores/4ee954a8408291040e004a7fbe62199a35db857c

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$ aria2c http://file-store.openmandriva.org/api/v1/file_stores/87a574e3e892a55a60c6de08e0c02964e5c76866

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$ aria2c http://file-store.openmandriva.org/api/v1/file_stores/aa4831aa1e5a6b2e44909af8cbc0e43bca53b99e

or replace aria2c by wget if you prefer.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

None of these ISOs worked, They either just went into fallback mode or wouldn’t boot. I feel like my chances would be better if I just installed cinnamon from a third party repository

[rugyada]

Of course I just tried to help with download. If the Spin/s are or not working fine is different matter

@rugyada

Spins:
Other community alternative deskop(s):
Currently no dedicated maintainers. Any help is welcome. Bug fixing is low priority

Please note:
Spins are listed here mainly to make the users know that does exist a project draft, or proof of concept. Other than to show the current status to anyone who is willing to participate in their development.

Do not expect everything to work “out of the box”.
If anyone decides to use OM spins (or Plasma desktop from Cooker platform) you should be able to fix things and find workarounds for yourself.
Bug reports against the spins are accepted but any resolution will be low priority due to the lack of dedicated maintainers. Please consider to join the teams and/or to provide your own patches or Pull Requests.

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

@asfreeman9

None of these ISOs worked,

Thanks for reporting. As far as I know the Cinnamon and XFCE isos right now are broken. Some issue with authorization. I have reported this to @AngryPenguin. So this will be looked in to shortly.

Speculation by me: My guess is that whatever provides sudo is missing from those isos and that is needed for authorization of some kind. Anyway there is some authorization issue which is probably a fairly easy fix for a real developer. It is possible I am wrong and the Cinnamon isos have a different problem as I am relying on my fallible memory.

The dialog on the “Spin” page should make clear that these isos are experimental. The most recent info I have is that the Gnome, LXQt, Cosmic, and maybe Mate isos work and the other 3 listed do not.

Edit: Opinion: I would say that Gnome and LXQt are reasonable to use for production, I know we have users that do. I would say all the others should be considered as Alpha projects. As a tester I test Plasma and LXQt stuff.

Today I branched out to test the Cooker and ROME XFCE isos. These are what I reported on to developers today.

I did test the Cooker Cinnamon iso some time ago, like a month or more.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

I’ll just use a different desktop environment then

[tdkuhl]

I was able to install Rock(plasma slim), then install Cinnamon. Worked great. I am going to continue experimenting and see if I can get it going on Rome.

[asfreeman9 (Aidan Freeman)]

Huh, I think I’ll try that