No graphical user interface after upgrade to Fedora 43

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After upgrading to Fedora 43 gdm was not able to start properly and the gdm service was reporting:

Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
Gdm: Child process -2831 was already dead.

Issue solved by commenting the root cause in /etc/gdm/custom.conf:

WaylandEnable=false

into

#WaylandEnable=false

Relevant here is that this installation has had many upgrades and the configuration file was last updated in september 2018 :slight_smile:
This might help others with same issue.
Would be good if the upgrade checks on this configuration!

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Disabling Wayland is a custom change you must have made, also see the filename. Fedora has been all in on Wayland for a while, so this is not from the distro.

It’s difficult to verify all the different changes that people can make to their system.

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X11 is not tested for as a release blocking feature anymore.

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