I think you are right this sounds like the issue: Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter 43.0) as a Wayland display server Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Device '/dev/dri/card0' prefers shadow buffer Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Added device '/dev/dri/card0' (nvidia-drm) using atomic mode setting. Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Enabling experimental feature 'scale-monitor-framebuffer' Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Enabling experimental feature 'x11-randr-fractional-scaling' Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Created gbm renderer for '/dev/dri/card0' Oct 9 14:45:14 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Boot VGA GPU /dev/dri/card0 selected as primary Oct 9 14:45:15 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Disabling DMA buffer screen sharing (implicit modifiers not supported) Oct 9 14:45:15 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Using public X11 display :1, (using :2 for managed services) Oct 9 14:45:15 testosteron gnome-shell[23239]: Using Wayland display name 'wayland-0' ... ... ... Oct 9 14:46:45 testosteron systemd[22999]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. Oct 9 14:46:50 testosteron systemd[22999]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing. Oct 9 14:46:50 testosteron systemd[22999]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: Killing process 23239 (gnome-shell) with signal SIGKILL. Oct 9 14:46:50 testosteron systemd[22999]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: Killing process 43235 (gst-plugin-scan) with signal SIGKILL. Oct 9 14:46:50 testosteron systemd[22999]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL Oct 9 14:46:50 testosteron systemd[22999]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Oct 9 14:46:50 testosteron systemd[22999]: Failed to start GNOME Shell on Wayland.
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