Silverblue 33: multiple apps not working

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I have these problems upon upgrading to Silverblue 33

  1. Gnome Software no longer launches. On Silverblue 32, in recent weeks it would launch but fail to upgrade flatpak apps (the upgrade process would hang). Previously it worked fine (if incredibly slowly).

  2. Toolbox is not working. I’ve tried deleting the existing containers and creating a new one, still not working.

  3. Gnome terminal doesn’t launch. It wasn’t working on Silverblue 32, so I switched to Tilix. That worked, and because Software stopped working, I’ve been updating the system from the command line.

  4. Upon upgrading to SB 33, using flatpak from a terminal fails, and complains that it needs X11 $DISPLAY!

Perhaps all these problems have a related cause? I’ve spent hours searching for solutions, to no avail.

I can create separate issues for all these problems and describe them in detail, but I thought maybe a single post containing all the issues might give someone a clue to a common cause.

Thanks in advance for any help,

John

In Tilix:

 john ~  gnome-terminal
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
# Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display: 
 john ~  gnome-software 
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
05:08:48:0031 Gtk cannot open display: 
 john ~  flatpak update 
Looking for updates?
error: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
 john ~

rpm-ostree status:

Status
  
 Deployments:
  ostree://fedora:fedora/33/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 33.20201118.0 (2020-11-18T01:56:12Z)
                BaseCommit: b2fa388d17aaae68b34624f78abe705b2ae6ba5f59ab307416a177585d672225
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 963A2BEB02009608FE67EA4249FD77499570FF31
                      Diff: 1 upgraded
           LayeredPackages: R-core R-devel ffmpeg kmod-nvidia paprefs pass powerline sqliteodbc unixODBC-devel xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
             LocalPackages: rpmfusion-nonfree-release-33-1.noarch rstudio-1.4.1021-1.x86_64 google-chrome-stable-86.0.4240.198-1.x86_64 rpmfusion-free-release-33-1.noarch

* ostree://fedora:fedora/33/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 33.20201117.0 (2020-11-17T00:48:12Z)
                BaseCommit: 7b002133773c2630d79d8838bb96e2d7090a80a4903ee5439bd5a62aed1efc07
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 963A2BEB02009608FE67EA4249FD77499570FF31
           LayeredPackages: R-core R-devel ffmpeg kmod-nvidia paprefs pass powerline sqliteodbc unixODBC-devel xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
             LocalPackages: rpmfusion-nonfree-release-33-1.noarch rstudio-1.4.1021-1.x86_64 google-chrome-stable-86.0.4240.198-1.x86_64 rpmfusion-free-release-33-1.noarch

  ostree://fedora:fedora/33/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 33.20201117.0 (2020-11-17T00:48:12Z)
                BaseCommit: 7b002133773c2630d79d8838bb96e2d7090a80a4903ee5439bd5a62aed1efc07
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 963A2BEB02009608FE67EA4249FD77499570FF31
           LayeredPackages: R-core R-devel ffmpeg kmod-nvidia paprefs pass powerline unixODBC-devel xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
             LocalPackages: rpmfusion-nonfree-release-33-1.noarch rstudio-1.4.1021-1.x86_64 google-chrome-stable-86.0.4240.198-1.x86_64 rpmfusion-free-release-33-1.noarch

  ostree://fedora:fedora/32/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 32.20200502.0 (2020-05-02T01:53:13Z)
                BaseCommit: 8a7f176e3783779c190db97345f6fe245686953e410dd54f0bab00366148f863
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 97A1AE57C3A2372CCA3A4ABA6C13026D12C944D0
           LayeredPackages: R cairo-devel gsl-devel kmod-nvidia lapack64-devel libcurl-devel libxml2-devel paprefs powerline v8-devel xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
             LocalPackages: rstudio-1.2.5042-1.x86_64 rpmfusion-nonfree-release-32-1.noarch rpmfusion-free-release-32-1.noarch
                    Pinned: yes
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