Well… I guess I have been living under a rock. Today is the first time to have heard of info. I have been using man for well over 2 decades now.

It’s very difficult for me to work through these logs as they are missing new lines.

But there is plenty of stuff giving errors:

Aug 20 14:07:08 blackcloud gnome-session-binary[635]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop

Aug 20 14:07:08 blackcloud org.gnome.Shell.desktop[646]: Failed to setup: No GPUs found

Aug 20 14:07:08 blackcloud gdm[398]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing Aug 20 14:07:08 blackcloud gdm[398]: Gdm: Child process -628 was already dead.

Aug 20 14:08:08 blackcloud /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[2472]: dbus-daemon[2472]: [session uid=120 pid=2472] Activated service ‘org.freedesktop.systemd1’ failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

Aug 20 14:08:25 blackcloud gnome-shell[2483]: Connection to xwayland lost Aug 20 14:08:25 blackcloud gnome-shell[2483]: Xwayland terminated, exiting since it was mandatory Aug 20 14:08:25 blackcloud org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2483]: GNOME Shell terminated with an error: Xwayland exited unexpectedly

You might want to try (in no specific order) to check why xwayland is failing, reinstall gnome, clean up old configuration, do a system upgrade, try pacdiff.

I have not experienced this and no direct solution. You should probably check your logs to see what’s wrong. So on boot, try to log in into Wayland, then open up a shell and run these to see which errors pop up.

journalctl -b | grep wayland
journalctl -b | grep gnome
journalctl -b | grep gdm
# and for more general errors
journalctl -b -p 3

You might also want to check the book on Wayland.

I think Wikipedia is a valuable common good and should be maintained. Because I can afford it, I donate monthly, even if I only use it a few times each month.

Arkenfox its documentation is great. When I first found out about it I was blown away on how much one can do in order to improve their online privacy.

Firefox with strict settings is pretty good as a baseline. Arkenfox takes it to a new level.