No Wayland login option in GDM (GNOME)

[BuZZ-dEE]

I have no Wayland login option in GDM (GNOME). I found out that the folder .X11-unix is owned by gdm.
If I set root as owner of the .X11-unix ( thx @ringo ), I get back the Wayland login option and it seems that the login then works. But after a reboot the folder .X11-unix is again owned by gdm.

Can someone point me to solution for this problem?

[pebcak]

Look into the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf and make sure this line:

#WaylandEnable=false

looks as it should, that is, it look as above.

[BuZZ-dEE]

This is the content of /etc/gdm/custom.conf:

# GDM configuration storage

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=False
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false

[security]

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
#Enable=true

[pebcak]

Do you have an Nvidia card?

Please have a look at this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gdm#Troubleshooting

[BuZZ-dEE]

Yes and I use the nouveau driver.

lspci -nnk | egrep -i --color 'vga|3d|2d' -A3

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0a22]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
--
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117GLM [Quadro T500 Mobile] [10de:1fbb] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0a22]
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau

[pebcak]

Could you have a look at this part of the gdm troubleshooting on ArchWiki and see if it can be relevant to your issue?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gdm#GDM_ignores_Wayland_and_uses_X.Org_by_default

[BuZZ-dEE]

It seems that the problem was wrong permissions of the root folder.

After running sudo chown root: / I have the Wayland login option in GDM.

[Echoa]

I’d be curious and concerned as to how that happened