Native apps as well as flatpaks not starting

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Hi, I am having a rather annoying problem. I cannot start gnome apps like files, settings and software as well as many flatpak applications like text pieces, pika backup, folio, ear tag, zed-editor. When I try to start them, nothing happens. But when I check with btop, the applications get one (or more) process(es) assigned.
Some flatpaks seem unaffected and just start like bitwarden, onepassword and slack.
I am runnning Fedora 42 on GNOME. Every package is up-to-date.

Here is a example log of a flatpak trying to start: PrivateBin
And here I try to start gnome settings: PrivateBin

I cannot seem to find any errors when using sudo journalctl -xe.
Tried to downgrade mesa packages. That broke my GUI.
Tried downgrading mutter packages. That didnt do anyting.
Updated every package and flatpak. Ran sudo flatpak repair multiple times.

I am at a loss and have no clue how this can be fixed. I know my way around the terminal but this is…

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This sounds indeed like the recent mesa issue affecting GNOME apps, which should have been fixed by package version 25.0.7-2 though. What version are you on?

Does this temporary workaround work for you (reboot needed):

echo GSK_RENDERER=ngl | sudo tee -a /etc/environment > /dev/null