I had VMWare workstation 16 on Windows 11 installed running Fedora 42 - grub count down was 20 seconds per second. I updated the software then did the upgrade to Fedora 43, it installed rebooted, boots the 43 version from grub menu, the fedora logo shows, spinning circle, then a flash of the init items and black screen with cursor in upper left corner. Ctl-Alt-F3, F1, F2, anything doesn't work
I booted to emergency mode via adding systemd.unit=emergency.target
mount -o remount,rw /
Chat GPT had me try different things. One was to
nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
and then edit it so that the following was active:
WaylandEnable=false
With that, same thing happens but the init items remain on the screen and Ctl-Alt-F3 works, I can log in in the console terminal.
I upgraded VMWare workstation to 25H2 but does the exact same thing (but now grub count down is 1 second per second like it should be). 3D acceleration is now disabled as well. I tried from the start again by copying back the .vmdx but same results.
ChatGPT had me do some of these things:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
With that I get the console log in screen
dnf group install "gnome-desktop"
dnf reinstall xorg-x11-drv-vmware open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
dnf install xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-xinit
dracut --force
systemctl set-default graphical.target
dnf reinstall gdm mutter gnome-shell xorg-x11-drv-vmware open-vm-tools-desktop
systemctl start gdm
When I tried this it crashed - gdm says no session desktop files installed aborting then systemd-coredump gdm signal 5/trap.
It basically just kept saying to to the same types of things.
Nothing is working, does anyone know the solution?
Thanks!!
I booted to emergency mode via adding systemd.unit=emergency.target
mount -o remount,rw /
Chat GPT had me try different things. One was to
nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
and then edit it so that the following was active:
WaylandEnable=false
With that, same thing happens but the init items remain on the screen and Ctl-Alt-F3 works, I can log in in the console terminal.
I upgraded VMWare workstation to 25H2 but does the exact same thing (but now grub count down is 1 second per second like it should be). 3D acceleration is now disabled as well. I tried from the start again by copying back the .vmdx but same results.
ChatGPT had me do some of these things:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
With that I get the console log in screen
dnf group install "gnome-desktop"
dnf reinstall xorg-x11-drv-vmware open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
dnf install xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-xinit
dracut --force
systemctl set-default graphical.target
dnf reinstall gdm mutter gnome-shell xorg-x11-drv-vmware open-vm-tools-desktop
systemctl start gdm
When I tried this it crashed - gdm says no session desktop files installed aborting then systemd-coredump gdm signal 5/trap.
It basically just kept saying to to the same types of things.
Nothing is working, does anyone know the solution?
Thanks!!
