Hello! I did a standard upgrade, after removing the broken Wine packages, to Fedora 43, default not KDE spin. Post update everything works fine, except that no gui boots on startup and I have to use tty4 to log in. When trying to restart GDM.servuce with systemctl it just defaults to the black screen with the blinking cursor. startx returns many warning messages, and fails to work. I also tried to set default graphical.target, but this just led to a loading screen which never finished resolving. I am on an Intel chip with an integrated GPU.
When trying some things to fix this somehow I had Fedora 43 installed as a kernel but it wasn’t showing up in grub. Attempting to resolve this I uninstalled the fedora 43 kernel core hoping to reinstall it, but dnf would not reinstall it. The Gnome version installed seems to be 49, but the kernel that is running is Fedora 42.
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: NetworkManager, dnf5, gnome-shell, grub2-tools-minimal, selinux-policy-targeted, setup, sudo, syatemd, systemd-udev
You can try to add to command line:
--skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages
I finally solved my issue by reinstalling Fedora 42 off of a live USB. It preserved the files on my system, but none of my apps or preferences, as expected.
I have the same issue – blinking cursor after rebooted to updated Fedora 43 system
After a few reboots I grasped the chance of trying to get to another virtual terminal,
with Alt-F2 or Ctrl-Alt-F2 or something – and after logged in from that terminal labwc
started fine and I could get Wayland “desktop” running.
From journalctl -b --no-hostname log I see the following repeatedly happening…:
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Oct 31 14:50:43 systemd-coredump[1975]: Process 1960 (gnome-session-i) of user 60578 dumped core. (11 times in 10 sec period – grep()ed fron journalctl output…)
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`Oct 31 14:51:07 abrt-notification[2840]: [🡕] Process 2086 (gnome-session-init-worker) crashed in main()` (like above, 11 times in 10 secs period)
… this was the message just before gnome-session-i coredumping…
`Oct 31 14:50:54 gnome-session-i[2668]: Failed to start unit gnome-session-x11@gnome-login.target: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name “org.freedesktop.systemd1” does not exist`
sudo coredumpctl debug 1757 tells:
Core was generated by `/usr/libexec/gnome-session-init-worker gnome-login’.
Program terminated with signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. #0 0x00007fa26bb33f03 in g_log_structured_array () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
It could help us understand the issue if we can find common elements between the 2 systems that exhibit similar failures. If the issue is specific certain hardware it would also allow others to avoid upgrading until the issue is fixed.
@domo141 and @tortuguese: please provide the output from running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal and post the output (as pre-formatted, web-searchble text using the </> button from the top line of the text entry panel).
Since this issue is marked solved (by reinstalling F42) it would be best to start a new topic with a more helpful title such as “GUI failure after update to Fedora 43 Workstation”.
Hi, it looks like I ran into the same problem but I am on Asahi Fedora remix 42, so talking about MacBook Pro M1 and downgrading to F42 may not help in this case. After complete update on Monday and next start yesterday no GDM greeter shows up. During boot I do see the Apple, Asahi and Fedora Logo as well as the small rotating circular arc. But no background image nor greeter after this - only a blank screen. I could use tty2 to login in. Here I have the output of inxi -Fzxx: