Dell XPS-13 laptop - no GUI after upgrade to F41

I upgraded my laptop (Dell XPS 13 9360) to F41 (from F40) and I have lost the GUI. I just have a black screen.

I see in the journal a failue of gnome-shell

Oct 29 16:04:30 fedora systemd-coredump[1491]: Process 1464 (gnome-shell) of user 42 dumped core.
                                               
                                               Module libpciaccess.so.0 from rpm libpciaccess-0.16-13.fc41.x86_64
                                               Module libedit.so.0 from rpm libedit-3.1-53.20240808cvs.fc41.x86_64

and xorg

Oct 29 16:04:31 fedora systemd-coredump[1526]: Process 1522 (Xorg) of user 42 dumped core.
                                               
                                               Module liblzma.so.5 from rpm xz-5.6.2-2.fc41.x86_64
                                               Module libtinfo.so.6 from rpm ncurses-6.5-2.20240629.fc41.x86_64

trying to boot into an older kernel doesn’t help.

I filed a bug report a few weeks ago but got crickets…

I tried installing from scratch but with the same result.

Does anyone have an idea whats going on?

Michael

Added f41, gnome

What GPU(s) do you have? A quick search for 9360 showed Intel UHD but also mentioned NVIDIA and I’m thinking there’s multiple configs.

It’s a “Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640”.
Works fine with F40, not so much with F41

I have also filed a bug for a similar issue, when testing F41 installation on an older Intel MacBook, and got no graphical screen after Plymouth when booting from live media.

While most of the F41 issues regarding vulkan renderer are in connection with Nvidia GPUs, maybe your issue is similar.

Ca you try setting the GSK_RENDERER env. variable to gl (or ngl, since it was the default on F40 with GNOME)?

echo export GSK_RENDERER=gl | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/gtk_renderer.sh > /dev/null

Unfortunately no difference😿

I have upgraded from F40 residing on an external drive (used for testing) to F41, on my old MacBook, where I was having the same issue when booting from live ISO. After system upgrade the same: no GUI after Plymouth.

I manage to reach graphical environment by switching first to a tty console once I get the empty screen with dark background, then logging in with my user, then startx (so XOrg instead of Wayland). I don’t know how much this can be called a usable workaround. Does this work for you?

BTW, after the splash screen, when I am presented with the empty screen instead of GDM, there is a movable mouse pointer. Do you have it too?

Just trying to figure out if the two issues are somehow connected, despite you not having an NVidia graphics card.