System upgrade today, big one as system not run in a while.
Just wondered if there is a known Mate problem right now as it now refuses to login, goes back to login manager.
Had to install LXDE to login.
This is on the MATE OpenRC iso install.
Try to boot from the base ISO. Mount your root partition to /mnt and ESP to /mnt/boot/efi then artix-chroot /mnt. From there do pacman -Syyu, double check if everything went ok and reboot.
Something crashes mate-session or something. Any errors in ~/.xsession-errors?
@nous, I have discovered there is an issue with stable Mate ISO: when I open Mate terminal and start typing in it, the session crashes to lightdm. I'll also check weekly ISO to see if the issue is resolved there.
Update: Weekly ISO seems to be ok, so the alternative solution for the OP could be to boot from the weekly Mate (if at all relevant, since artix-chroot is still needed) ISO and update from there, by starting Mate terminal and repeating the procedure from my previous post.
Thanks. I tried these things, system upgrade (using pamac though), reinstall mate. Tried Mate gtk2 from AUR but there was a package that did not install. All fine, now running LXDE instead. Had another problem at the same time, kernel upgrade nixed the driver for the usb wifi, tp-link Archer T4U. Artix is better than most distros in actually having a dkms package for this. Automatic installation fails but it installs fine from the build folder with make - make install. Have to repeat after kernel upgrade.
The only distro I know about that has this driver integrated and working is ALT Linux 'Platform 10'.
It happened to me using openrc Xfce.
Currently I have been using runit. So far so good.