users created in F43 can’t log in via GDM in F44. The log files of GDM is in the following link

Ok, so back over in your reddit thread, someone was doing some post necromancy about issues folks had back in F41. One of the two posts actually looked a lot like your problem, and they ultimately resolved their issue. The user backed up ~/.config and then deleted the contents of the original, eff…

Apr 29 04:52:31 fedora gdm[1694]: Gdm: GdmSession: Emitting 'session-started' signal with pid '4532' Apr 29 04:52:31 fedora gdm[1694]: Gdm: GdmManager: session started 4532 Apr 29 04:52:31 fedora gdm-wayland-session[4532]: Gdm: Enabling debugging Apr 29 04:52:31 fedora gdm-wayland-session[4532]: Gdm…

Should I post the full logs of the boot session generated by journalctl ?

Hi! I’ve got the same problem. Could you troubleshoot it? Is it tracked anywhere else?

It looks like you authenticated successfully. I ‘m not sure what’s going on there with gdm, but I wonder if maybe your upgrade isn’t quite done yet. If you grab a TTY (ctrl+alt+f[3-6]) and tell dnf to upgrade, does it actually try to fetch updates or does it cry about an incomplete transaction? If i…

This link includes the full logs generated by journalctl I hope it will help.

I’ve upgraded through gnome store GUI package manager, I can update through GUI Package manager and dnf $ sudo dnf upgrade [sudo] password for Mohammed: Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. Nothing to do. I can log in to the affected F43 user via TTY3 session, but not through …

[image] Joseph Saber: I can log in to the affected F43 user via TTY3 session, but not through graphical desktop manager GNOME session. That’s not surprising. GNOME tries to start a lot of programs when the user signs in . When you sign in on the console, almost nothing beyond the Bash shell i…

The user backed up ~/.config and then deleted the contents of the original It worked thank you very much. however dark mode now is broken somehow, but I may dedicate another thread regarding that, but it’s only broken for that user. [image] I’m not sure if I could find it again, but one of t…

I’m not sure that a crashing startup application is taking out gnome-shell as well, but for what it is worth, I found the comments that I was referring to and I’ll repost them here: Excerpted from The GNOME Shell session is killed when a Flatpak running in the background is closed. : [image] … […

@josephsaber40 do you use Cloudflare’s warp-cli client? Someone has reported that that startup app can cause gnome-shell to crash when signing in: [image] Login loop on fresh F44 Workstation install Ask Fedora I found the issue on my device. It was the (deskto…

Can't log into local F43 accounts after upgrading to F44

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glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew) April 29, 2026, 6:01pm 12

@josephsaber40 do you use Cloudflare’s warp-cli client? Someone has reported that that startup app can cause gnome-shell to crash when signing in:

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Can't log into local F43 accounts after upgrading to F44

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