I’ve successfully used Cinnamon for many Fedora releases. After upgrading to Fedora 44 yesterday (1 May), when I logon I get only the desktop background. Cinnamon Wayland and Gnome both work. I’ve tried backing up and removing ~/.config and “sudo restorecon -Rv /” to no avail (both suggested by internet search).
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks
If your using gdm you will need to switch to lightdm (slick-greeter).
This worked. Thanks. Since I didn’t need to use lightdm previously, do you know why this change is needed for F44?
I believe gnome have stripped X support from gdm
Thanks. Let’s hope lightdm continues to support X
Glad I saw this post. I have an old system that I switched from Gnome to Cinnamon because it has an old Nvidia card that requires the 470 series drivers that don’t support Wayland. I was just getting ready to attempt the upgrade to F44. It’s currently using gdm, so I’ll try switching to lightdm before the upgrade.
Just upgrade Cinnamon to 44.
The same problenm.
How to switch to lightdm?
Please…
Keep gdm and disable it
sudo dnf install slick-greeter
sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo systemctl enable lightdm
sudo systemctl reboot
Note: Make sure you have set a static hostname because if it switches during boot it will prevent session from starting.
I believe Xorg does this for security.
$ hostnamectl
Static hostname: leigh-pc
Icon name: computer-desktop
Chassis: desktop 🖥️
Machine ID: 700108e61e1047dc8df6129ac343f1f6
Boot ID: 0dccfc70a47c411a8add522b98cd5830
Operating System: Fedora Linux 44 (Cinnamon)
CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44
OS Support End: Wed 2027-05-19
OS Support Remaining: 1y 2w
Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-200.fc44.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: ASUS
Hardware Model: ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING
Hardware SKU: SKU
Hardware Version: System Version
Firmware Version: 3636
Firmware Date: Sun 2026-01-04
Firmware Age: 3month 4w 1d
If it isn’t static
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname <choose hostname>
and journalctl also says
says
lightdm gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
It’s harmless spam.
It’s a gnome-keyring issue, it spams the log when it starts before it’s daemon.
startx failed because it didn’t handle xauth
And how to fix it?
Great! I’m still on F42. I prefer doing this while it’s fresh to my mind though. Thankd for the heads up!
I followed the same basic steps that Leigh posted and after reboot I had successfully switched to lightdm on F43. After that I was able to successfully upgrade to F44.
startx isn’t in the scope of the original question, start a new thread for that.
OK
I did the steps in this post and it booted to Terminal. I re-enabled gdm and now am using the software version of Cinnamon which seems to be working. This isn’t an emergency on my part - it is just to report this didn’t work for me.
