Upgraded a Fedora VM from silverblue 41 to silverblue 42. As far as the upgrade is concerned things were okay.
However after rebooting, I couldn’t connect remotely via RDP anymore. Turns out the gnome-remote-desktop.service fails to start now:
# systemctl status gnome-remote-desktop.service
× gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gnome-remote-desktop.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf, 50-keep-warm.conf
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2025-04-16 00:16:45 CEST; 10min ago
Invocation: 9ddc2435545945b1990b58756a90d173
Process: 1398 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon --system (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Main PID: 1398 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: Failed to start gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop.
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: gnome-remote-desktop.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd[1]: Failed to start gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop.
Here is what appears in the logs:
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan systemd[1]: Starting gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop...
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[1398]: [00:16:44:152] [1398:00000576] [ERROR][com.freerdp.crypto] - [x509_utils_from_pem]: BIO_new failed for certificate
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-de[1398]: RDP server certificate is invalid
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-de[1398]: Init TPM credentials failed because Failed to initialize transmission interface context: tcti:IO failure, using GKeyFile as fallback
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-de[1398]: Init file credentials failed: Permission denied
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[1398]: **
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[1398]: ERROR:../src/grd-settings.c:347:grd_settings_constructed: assertion failed: (priv->credentials)
Apr 16 00:16:44 alan gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[1398]: Bail out! ERROR:../src/grd-settings.c:347:grd_settings_constructed: assertion failed: (priv->credentials)
Apr 16 00:16:45 alan systemd-coredump[1406]: [🡕] Process 1398 (gnome-remote-de) of user 974 dumped core.
And the application keep generating coredumps that looks like:
# coredumpctl info | cat
PID: 1398 (gnome-remote-de)
UID: 974 (gnome-remote-desktop)
GID: 974 (gnome-remote-desktop)
Signal: 6 (ABRT)
Timestamp: Wed 2025-04-16 00:16:44 CEST (12min ago)
Command Line: /usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon --system
Executable: /usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon
Control Group: /system.slice/gnome-remote-desktop.service
Unit: gnome-remote-desktop.service
Slice: system.slice
Boot ID: e7233fc4da4d4b9e8a3f8bef9f7e9a26
Machine ID: fd39b52456f548f183a3a98665f4537d
Hostname: alan
Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.gnome-remote-de.974.e7233fc4da4d4b9e8a3f8bef9f7e9a26.1398.1744755404000000.zst (present)
Size on Disk: 640.6K
Message: Process 1398 (gnome-remote-de) of user 974 dumped core.
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Stack trace of thread 1398:
#0 0x00007f9682db127c __pthread_kill_implementation (libc.so.6 + 0x7327c)
#1 0x00007f9682d57cbe raise (libc.so.6 + 0x19cbe)
#2 0x00007f9682d3f6d6 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x16d6)
#3 0x00007f9683faf442 g_assertion_message.cold (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x2442)
#4 0x00007f9684022b97 g_assertion_message_expr (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x75b97)
#5 0x0000556ca9b1262f n/a (/e2/6b0d107f5a23e8f5bfda4286e892c28f978d3e184ee2142a35945e9c1a6728.file + 0x2c62f)
#6 0x00007f9683d9855a g_object_new_internal.part.0 (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x1855a)
#7 0x00007f9683d9a5bb g_object_new_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x1a5bb)
#8 0x00007f9683d9a9bf g_object_new (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x1a9bf)
#9 0x0000556ca9b02514 n/a (/e2/6b0d107f5a23e8f5bfda4286e892c28f978d3e184ee2142a35945e9c1a6728.file + 0x1c514)
#10 0x0000556ca9af12a7 n/a (/e2/6b0d107f5a23e8f5bfda4286e892c28f978d3e184ee2142a35945e9c1a6728.file + 0xb2a7)
#11 0x00007f9682d415f5 __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x35f5)
#12 0x00007f9682d416a8 __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (libc.so.6 + 0x36a8)
#13 0x0000556ca9af1425 n/a (/e2/6b0d107f5a23e8f5bfda4286e892c28f978d3e184ee2142a35945e9c1a6728.file + 0xb425)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Any tips on how to understand what is going on here ?