20–30s black screen with cursor when logging into GNOME Wayland

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On Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME Wayland), logging in takes 20–30 seconds of black screen with only a cursor visible. This happens both after boot and when simply logging out and logging back in — no reboot required.

Hardware: ThinkPad T14s Gen2, i7-1165G7 (i915).
Gnome extentions: Dash to Dock and Vitals

Looking for pointers on what causes this type of stall and which logs or diagnostics would help isolate it.

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journalctl -b will show you the logs from the current boot. Use -b -1 for the previous boot, -b -2 for the boot before that, and so on.

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Thanks for reply. Solved the freeze with masking following

systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep tracker
tracker-extract.service                                          masked    disabled
tracker-miner-apps.service                                       masked    disabled
tracker-miner-fs-3.service                                       masked    disabled
tracker-writeback.service                                        masked    disabled