Can't start wayland

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After upgrading to Fedora 41, I experienced some issues during a Wayland session.

General system info:
Fedora 41 Workstation
GNOME
Wayland
RTX 3070 with proprietary drivers

Basically after some time, my second monitor’s image froze completely. I could restore it by disabling and re enabling the display. But after 20ish minutes it happened again. After I rebooted the system completely, I could no longer start Wayland (more info about this later). I reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers and was able to login to Wayland again, but after about 4h of use, the second monitor locked up again.

After another reboot, Wayland was dead again. Further reinstalls of the NVIDIA drivers did not allow me to login to Wayland again.

The issue when I try doing so is the last frame generated by GDM before the “handover” to Wayland simply freezes and won’t go away, as if the Wayland session was stuck trying to start up. The keyboard lights shut off during this, but quickly turn back on and become unresponsive to any toggle keys like NumLock.

The frame in question is composed of the cursor (won’t move) over an empty GDM-gray background.

I had also previously tried resetting dconf settings and disabling all extensions, to no avail.

I captured a journalctl log from a few minutes back after logging in again, but to my surprise, I couldn’t find any distinctive errors or anything that gave me a clue of what was going on. In a sense it looked as if the session had booted successfully (?).

The log can be found here.

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Hi,

Can you provide the output of those commands

modinfo -F version nvidia
dnf history list
rpm -qa kernel

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Thank you for the quick reply!

Outputs are as follows:

modinfo -F version nvidia

570.86.16

dnf history list

ID Command line                                                                                                                            Date and time       Action(s) Altered
17 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.H370tdlg/results/kmod-nvidia-6.13.4-200.fc41.x86_64-570.86.16-3.fc41.x86_64.rpm 2025-02-27 17:02:29                 1
16 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.hkeJ0uh7/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm   2025-02-23 16:02:26                 1
15 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.hyouR4cp/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm   2025-02-23 08:41:36                 1
14 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.kcHtLYJs/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm   2025-02-14 18:36:48                 1
13 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.Ffctt9mt/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm   2025-02-14 18:32:16                 1
12 dnf remove ghostty                                                                                                                      2025-01-15 01:54:48                 1
11 dnf install ghostty                                                                                                                     2025-01-15 01:52:14                 1
10 dnf remove @kde-desktop                                                                                                                 2025-01-10 23:11:13               104
 9 dnf -y reinstall --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.jkKd3SWh/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.8-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm  2025-01-10 21:24:57                 2
 8 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.aOXir8d3/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.8-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm    2025-01-10 21:17:18                 1
 7 dnf install akmod-nvidia                                                                                                                2025-01-06 17:31:13                14
 6 dnf remove akmod-nvidia                                                                                                                 2025-01-06 17:30:45                14
 5 dnf install akmod-nvidia                                                                                                                2025-01-05 21:43:19                14
 4 dnf remove akmod-nvidia                                                                                                                 2025-01-05 21:42:58                14
 3 dnf update --refresh                                                                                                                    2025-01-03 21:52:38                10
 2 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.r5s0rToZ/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.7-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm    2025-01-03 19:50:51                 1
 1 dnf -y install --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /tmp/akmods.Q1dHniPm/results/kmod-nvidia-6.12.7-200.fc41.x86_64-565.77-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm    2025-01-03 19:44:36                 1

rpm -qa kernel

kernel-6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64
kernel-6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64
kernel-6.13.4-200.fc41.x86_64
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Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong?