Fedora Server 40 does not boot after installing third party software

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Hello Community. After installing the OS and installing software, Fedora doesn’t boot. The Grub menu appears, I choose the first option menu and then a message shows: "Failed to start snap.remmina.ssh agent.service.
I tried to boot in rescue mode but it does not work.
I acknowledge the solution.

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Welcome to Fedora @ramlez

Please give more information about your system and what you did try to do. Which software you try to install.

If it is a common Software the chance that someone can help you is bigger when telling us more.

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Thank you for the answer. The problem appeared when I installed Kubernetes. The app’s name is microk8s (on Snap Store). After the installation, I installed a group of software and everything worked properly.
After choosing in Grub menu to load the OS, what is shown is the following:
FAILED Failed to start snap.microk8s.daemon-containerd.service -service for snap application microk8s.daemon.containerd

I tryed to boot in safe mode in Grub and Fedora does not run.
I guess, pressing the key “C” in Grub and typing a specific command or a group of them, it should be fixed.

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I could imagine that selinux is making you trouble. Snap is not native for Fedora. It is more a Ubuntu thing.

But anyway, it must be possible.

I still miss more information about your setup. Did you install snap on a Fedora Server edition or on any other installation?
I work on Gnome as an example.

When the machine is short before execute gdm I can switch to an other text login with
Ctrl & Alt & F1 - F7

So I do have access to journalctl to see what is getting wrong.

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Thank you for responding. I tried to sent you the information through jorurnalctl command. With the combination of the keys mentioned I could not access to it. I decided to reinstall Fedora since a clean installation. The problem was Snap Store, guessing it has few compatibility with the OS. All the software installed on the second time was done with terminal and downloaded in Internet. I tried to install Gnome Desktop but it is not available at list on the version used (Fedora Server 40). The neck bottle is solved but spending more time to redo the job.

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By the way, I have the crazy idea to install next to Fedora, Ubuntu Server on another partition. If you can suggest me how to proceed, I acknowledge you. Unless, the better way is to virtualize it.