System won't boot after update | Fedora 40 | Mesa 24.1

[tqcharm (Mike B.)]

Isn’t this a mesa issue?

Gnome apps cause WM to fail on Fedora 40

Sounds like: 2292321 – gnome shell wayland sessions crash when any app is launched Try dnf downgrade mesa* Then reboot and see if that resolves the issue. With KDE, using SDDM you get a black screen. Hopefully, they’ll get this resolved soon and pushed to stable. If that is indeed your issue, you’ll need to stop updating until it’s fixed or place an excludepkgs=mesa* in your dnf repo files.

[spaceboy (Chris Davies)]

@tqcharm

Isn’t this a mesa issue?

Sounds like: 2292321 – gnome shell wayland sessions crash when any app is launched Try dnf downgrade mesa* Then reboot and see if that resolves the issue. With KDE, using SDDM you get a black screen. Hopefully, they’ll get this resolved soon and pushed to stable. If that is indeed your issue, you’ll need to stop updating until it’s fixed or place an excludepkgs=mesa* in your dnf repo files.

It doesn’t even get as far as the gnome wayland desktop, let alone crash out when launching an app. I will try downgrading mesa none the less to see if makes a difference.

[tqcharm (Mike B.)]

I have read different behaviors on GNOME and KDE. Downgrading mesa won’t do any harm, you can revert if this isn’t the issue.

[spaceboy (Chris Davies)]

@tqcharm

I have read different behaviors on GNOME and KDE. Downgrading mesa won’t do any harm, you can revert if this isn’t the issue.

dnf downgrade mesa*
No matches for wildcard mesa*

EDIT: never mind, found the necessary drivers to downgrade. KDE and GNOME Wayland both login and apps open without issue so far!

Thanks

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@spaceboy

dnf downgrade mesa*
No matches for wildcard mesa*

Your shell probably expanded the wildcard and since it did not find a matching file gave that response.
That should have been run as dnf downgrade mesa\*; then dnf would have expanded the wildcard instead of the shell expanding it.

[tqcharm (Mike B.)]

According to this Bugzilla comment, the mesa issue has been solved, and version 24.1.2-7.fc40 is now in the stable repo.

Please post a comment here if the new version is working for you.

[spaceboy (Chris Davies)]

@tqcharm

Please post a comment here if the new version is working for you.

Yes update’s working