Gnome apps not opening after update to f41

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None of the Gnome GUI apps are opening: Settings, Files, Clocks, even Gnome Tweaks.

Issue

  • I updated my Fedora Workstation from 40 to 41.
  • Update went errorfree, atleast it seemed like it.
  • After rebooting, none of the gnome apps were opening.

Efforts

  • I tried to reset gnome user settigns by dconf reset -f / without backup (already in pain). Didn’t work.
  • journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f resulted in unhelpful:
    Nov 04 11:06:38 fedora gnome-shell[7788]: WL: error in client communication (pid 44518)

Doesn’t seem like hardware issue but still here is my inxi -Fxz

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.1 Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 16-s0xxx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8BD5 v: 79.43 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.15 date: 02/15/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.1 Wh (52.1%) condition: 61.6/70.1 Wh (88.0%)
    volts: 15.0 min: 15.4 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/5137 boost: enabled cores: 1: 400
    2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400
    12: 400 13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400 bogomips: 121372
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GN20-P0-R-K2 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 560.35.03 arch: Ampere
    bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3
    bus-ID: 05:00.0 temp: 38.0 C
  Device-3: Quanta HP True Vision FHD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    bus-ID: 3-1:2
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~144Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.5 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 780M (radeonsi gfx1103_r1 LLVM
    19.1.0 DRM 3.59 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64)
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 01:00.1
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High
    Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 05:00.1
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.5
  Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.6
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave driver: mt7921e v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: br-eb7b7b3abf6b state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-3: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    bus-ID: 1-5:2
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 274.48 GiB (28.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HDLU-00BH1
    size: 953.87 GiB temp: 40.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 96.66 GiB used: 60.58 GiB (62.7%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 528.1 MiB (54.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 94.5 MiB (36.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 96.66 GiB used: 60.58 GiB (62.7%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.9 GiB used: 5.58 GiB (37.5%)
  Processes: 448 Uptime: 6h 21m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
  Packages: 26 note: see --rpm Compilers: clang: 19.1.0 gcc: 14.2.1
    Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 inxi: 3.3.36
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Latest Gnome apps not working in fedora 41 using wayland - #15 by tqcharm

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Following this reply, I found that there are many similar issues (which didn’t come up when I was researching initially). Two of them are linked below (thankfully, both of them have solutions, and one and the same)

Considering that it was a renderer issue, I tried logging into Gnome on Xorg, and that worked just fine. Gnome Classic on Xorg also works but not Gnome Classic. I didn’t think Wayland was this far behind in some matters. And I also should stop blaming NVIDIA Drivers for everything.

Also, here is the blog for the “new” renderers.

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