GDM Freezes to Underscore "_" After Upgrade to 44

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Hello,

After upgrading to Fedora 44, my system no longer can start GDM without freezing to an underscore “_” in the upper-left of my displays (dual monitor setup). I cannot switch to another virtual TTY in this frozen state, but CTL+ALT+DEL can reboot.

I am aware that GNOME 50 is no longer using X11/X.org, but I can get GNOME to start using the following…

I was able to work around this by booting into recovery mode and setting:

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

I temporarily installed “slick-greeter” and enabled it:

sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo systemctl enable lightdm

I was able to launch into GNOME with lightdm:

sudo systemctl start lightdm

The system is otherwise working correctly other than the issue with GDM.

I have attempted to force Wayland in /etc/gdm/custom.conf with no success.

[daemon]
WaylandEnable=true

I’ve cleared the custom.conf and reinstalled the gdm packages so that it automatically replaces the custom.conf with a default. This was also unsuccessful.

Has anyone else encountered this issue and / or has an idea of how to go about troubleshooting this issue? I see a lot of information online about the proprietary nVidia drivers, which I am not using, as this is strictly an AMD system.

Thank you.

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It ended up being the problem described here, due to my upgrade from FC42 to 44:

I had no configuration from:

authselect current

I asked a buddy on FC44 to provide his output on a more recent install, and he had:

Profile ID: local
Enabled features:
- with-silent-lastlog
- with-fingerprint
- with-mdns4

I was able to resolve the issue with the following command from the thread above:

sudo authselect select local with-silent-lastlog with-mdns4 --force

I omitted fingerprint even though it seems to be there by default in fresh installs.