GNOME session fails on first login after boot (fedora 44 beta)

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On Fedora 44 Beta, GNOME won’t log in on the first attempt after a fresh boot. I type my password at GDM, get a blank screen, and get thrown right back to GDM. Every single time.

My dumb workaround for now: I log into Niri first, immediately log out, and then GNOME logs in perfectly. Not exactly an ideal boot experience, but it gets me to a desktop.

See attached video.

In the video the Niri workaround doesn’t seem to be working, but when I logged in to Niri again and logged out and logged back in to gnome it worked.

System: Fedora 44 Beta, gnome-session-50~rc-1.fc44, AMD Lucienne (amdgpu), Wayland

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Did you do a fresh install or an upgrade from an older version, to F44?

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Fresh Install

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I wonder if this is an issue with the language of the keyboard.
Maybe some letters in the password change if the keybaord layout changes?

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What do you get in the journal log for the time frame around the failed login?

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I had this under F39 got clicked out to the login screen again when try to login.

It was with Wayland and I had to deactivate the disable-extension-version-validation.

Instructions you can find here: