Gnome fails to start after system update

keithy · June 15, 2025, 5:07pm

I immediately get the ‘oh no something has gone wrong’ screen after login

I can get into tty. Of course there were lots of updates. Any ideas which I might downgrade to resume normal operation?

Thank you

[2025-06-15T16:37:45+0100] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
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[2025-06-15T16:38:06+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Upstream changed the binary name from 'telegram-desktop' to 'Telegram'
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Cphusion · June 15, 2025, 5:30pm

The only two gnome packages I see there are evolution and yelp. Have you tried rebooting and then tried logging in again? What you can also do is logging a tty, have journalctl -f running there and then login into your account in gdm and then when the login fails switch to your other tty to see what error messages you see come across.

i2mo · June 15, 2025, 5:53pm

I have the same problem.

keithy · June 15, 2025, 5:58pm

Think this is it. about to test…

PeterRies · June 15, 2025, 6:00pm

same here. So not a misconfiguration on my side at least.
will check back in some hours

thanks!

keithy · June 15, 2025, 6:02pm

Downgrading libwacom is indeed the fix.

PeterRies · June 16, 2025, 5:39am

I just got 2.16.0-2 installed. Please try it out

keithy · June 16, 2025, 5:59pm

Yes, that works

system · June 18, 2025, 6:00pm

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