Hello,
Firstly please ignore the messy system going to give it a wipe down, it been a hectic week or two
Not sure if anyone else is exprincing this problem. Im using RHEL 9 and I performed an update today. Everything was fine until after I came back from lunch. I managed to log in to the system but bluetooth controls were none functional, so I performed a reboot and was greeted with this screen.
It was an strange issue and I wasnt sure how it bad it may have been, so I rebooted into single user mode and proceed to evalaute '/var/log/messages', I greped for errors and further investigated the gnome ones. I found this interesting message
Indeed it was a gnome-shell issue cause by libmutter. I know nothing of th lib or atleast at the time it was difficult to find much info as the GUI was non funcational. I tried to inspect a little further, I couldn't find info with 'dnf whatprovides' so I proceeded to do a downgrade of gnome-shell. Multiple downgrade didn't change a thing.
I guess from the logs it appears as though the key issue was org.gnome.Shell.desktop.
I managed to solve the issue temporally by installing KDE and configuring the system to boot in to that by default. I will likely swithc RHEL 10 since thats gone GA now. However, I have my RHCE exam around the corner so I can't be perform a full system swap at the moment. Im going to work out of KDE for a while until I do a switch over.
Not sure whats up with libmutter it might be very specific to the gnome version, the package mutter does exist and it is installed the latest version. I can guess maybe downgrading that might set libmutter to another version that has the required symbol: drmModeCloseFB.
However im interested if anyone else exprinced this issue or got any thoughts about it ?
