I’ve recently been unable to use my computer running Fedora 42 with gnome. It boots up, and GDM starts running, however it shows a flat grey screen with no login option. I can pull up a tty and login as normal (although using gnome-session to start a GUI session from there doesn’t work). I have tried to use systemctl to restart GDM from the tty, but that l brings me back to square one.
What can I do from here to resolve this issue?
GPU: Radeon 7800xt, Open Source Drivers Window System: Wayland.
Last time I had a similar-ish issue it was some graphic card drivers failing. Ones I didn’t even need nor could use but somehow ended installed. Check the log from the boot sequance. Generally its Linux - you’ll find answers in some log.
Or just purge and reinstall GDM. (your expiriance may vary)
Logs, as in what shows up in journalctl? Also, when you suggest purging and reinstalling gdm, what issues are you saying I might run into?