GDM hangs while logging into main user account

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Hi! I’ve been using Fedora for a few years and have been able to solve any issues with searching[1], so this is my first message to the forum. It’s been great and I love it, much easier than the distros I used before.
The popup said to start a new topic rather than reply to the one I thought was appropriate, so that’s what I’m doing.

I haven’t been able to log in today on my user account. It is having all the same issues as this common issue but I followed the workaround and even tried adding the .autorelabel file as mentioned in the linked Bug 2406225 but nothing has worked. The difference with my experience and the common issue is I had a guest user (just an unprivileged user account, not an ephemeral one like some systems have as Fedora does not include one) and I was able to log in fine with that and even make a new admin user, which also logs in fine. I’m using it now to access this forum. I tried changing the password for my user account from the new admin account as well, and I applied updates that were available from the new account too. I’m not sure how to proceed as nothing else has come up in my searches for recent login issues that may be applicable.

I tried to initiate a graphical session from a tty login using gnome-shell --wayland and that triggered the hang as well. Is there another window manager that will allow me to log in and access my home folder easily without hanging while I’m working through the gnome/gdm issue?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me to recover my home account and I’m happy to create a bug report if this is in fact a separate issue.

I upgraded to F43 in the last few days.
I do not know how this could be reproduced on another system. I can reproduce it by restarting or logging out and then logging into my main user account.

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Dell Inc. XPS 15 9500

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 1.39.0
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 49
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64

  1. Including this one apparently ↩︎

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Found a solution! mv $HOME/.config/dconf/user{,.bak} as seen here let me log in.

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