Reboot get stuck before the loading process

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I tried to disable Wayland on my fedora and I modified the ‘etc/gdm/custom.conf’ files to remove the # before the ‘WaylandEnable=false’ line to make it active. After that, I run the command ‘sudo reboot’ to reboot my computer and apply my modification.

The computer shutdown and restart on the boot menu where I choose my reboot method (I have the choice between

  • fedora (6.14.3-300.fc42.x86_64) 42
  • fedora (6.14.3-63.fc42.x86_64) 42
  • fedora (rescue) 42

no matter which version I choose, I get stuck just before the loading screen (the screen where you can see what is starting, started and loaded, such as Gnome graphic (gdm.service). That means everything seems to be started but the pc won’t launch the loading screen and the os. So I only see the starting list.

I quickly tried to use Grub command to launch differently fedora (enforcing=0)

Can someone help me ?

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I don’t think modern Fedora installs the Xorg stack by default any more. First try: $ sudo dnf install group base-x, then $ sudo systemctl restart --now gdm.service, or maybe reboot.

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The problem is that I cannot launch my computer at all. So I cannot use terminal except Grub one.

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Do you have a live USB version of Linux available? Can you boot into that, mount your drive and re-edit the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file?

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Are you sure you can’t get past the GRUB boot loader? Wait a minute for the system to boot. Do Ctrl+Alt+F2…F6 give you virtual terminals?

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I didn’t think about that, I’ve just done that and it worked, thanks youuuuuu

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