Gnome Desktop no icons only background pic

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Hello all. I am with newly hardware ASUS prime b850 wifi with AMD 9900x and video AMD 9070 XT. When i try to install fedora(also i try opensuse, ubuntu as distros) i successfully installed fedora, but after the boot nothings work. I just see the main screen with no icons, taskbars even i did not be able to click on the background with right click(for difference with opensuse where i could). That is happening on fedora workstation 43. The silverblue version was not able even to be installed. What i can do or what i am doing wrong?
p.s. i’ve changed the settings into the bios for the CSM and secure boots. I am open for suggestions. Thanks in advance.

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Hello.

Can you provide additional logs?

journalctl -b -p err

Without logs, I can only assume that the problem is in the modern video card.

I dont have same GPU to check. but according to resources

You may try to set this

sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args=amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xfffd3fff

According to this reddit post, this will disable PP_OVERDRIVE_MASK , PP_GFXOFF_MASK , and PP_STUTTER_MODE .

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What do you mean ‘after boot’?
Did you log in?

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It was autologged. And you are on the desktop and you cannot do anything. I could only go into the console with ctrl + alt + f2.

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I am think also in that way, but as i have GPU ports on the motherboard i try them as well. And they did not produce any picture. I will try to get logs.

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- this is how it looks. I will try to provide logs probably at the evening or tomorrow.

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I’d try and upgrade or downgrade gnome-desktop

You could enable update-testing repo to get the latest.

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I cannot provide logs. Actually i cannot do anything. It ask me for a login into the console with ctrl + alt + f2. I am not setting up any credentials via the installation. There is no step for that. I’ve try to create a user while i was at the live, but it does not affect it after the install. I try to boot it on vmware and there i even boot. Pf whats wrong …

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Some update from me. It is the gnome version. Also the workstation installation does not have the step for setting an account. Those step is figure into the KDE plasma version.

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So it sounds like the gnome-initial-setup component (which should set up a user on first boot) is somehow failing to run here.

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Probably. I am not sure if i install it manually that i will no break the system. But probably i want to know :smiley: