A bit of a timeline for my upgrade to 43. First I saw that 43 was out so a few days ago I decided to go for it. Previously I would have had my son do the upgrade but now I do feel comfortable following the instructions provided by Fedora. It is quite easy and it went well.
Then after getting both computers upgraded I started to see the issues. First was the issue of thumbnails and I found the solution to that online (glycin-thumbnailer). Then came the volumeicon issue and there were no solutions posted. So I asked my son. At first he thought that he had it figured out, but that did not in fact fix the issue (he had gotten a suggestion from Chat GPT which was wrong). After a couple of days he figured it out after looking at a stack trace. Bubblewrap was in fact the issue and there was a fix. He installed the fix and it worked. The only problem was that we didn’t reboot. Somehow the fix worked just fine on the newer computer but he did clean things up a bit today. The issue with the boot not getting to the login screen reared its head this morning when I booted up the older machine. Had we rebooted yesterday we would have figured that out sooner. And I did not immediately tie the volumeicon fix to the boot issue. But after getting into recovery mode and seeing the errors he did. Hooray!
Fedora 43 has definitely been a journey so far…