Fedora 42 to 43 via dnf5 failed stuck at Started gdm.service

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Hi all,

Looked around at a few posts but can’t quite match my exactly failure and end result.

It went fine, but stuck at 100% complete. Didn’t ask me to reboot like normal, but left it to no avail and rebooted.

Now I’m left with:

Started gdm.service

Can’t get a login prompt up via usual ctrl alt FX options.

Ideas?

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after ctrl alt delete:

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Tried selinux grub option too. Boot into root user mode?

I did see akmod doing my nvidia module, but that’s normal on a kernel upgrade.

Thanks.

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Try running this command

sudo depmod -a
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Will do once I get into single user mode and report back. Thanks for the reply.

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Sorted. Was my custom gdm config. Steps I did for others:

Single to root
depmod - a
upgrade - - refresh

No change. Spotted this in a thread:

Gnome decided to eliminate X by default so, this will break GDM IF /etc/gdm/custom.config has WaylandEnable=false. You will need to comment that line or remove it.

Which is what I had.

Thanks!