Re: Aw: Re: startx fails after update

On 6/26/26 6:40 PM, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> On Fri Jun26'26 04:57:22PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:57:22 -0700
>> To: [email protected]
>> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Aw: Re: startx fails after update
>>
>> On 6/26/26 3:55 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
>>> On 6/26/26 2:33 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
>>>   > After updating from fc42 to fc44, startx fails.
>>>   > What to do? See below
>>>
>>>   > ** (gnome-session:4909): WARNING **: 23:19:46.671: Launched from the
>>>   > TTY. Launching a Wayland session
>>> Gnome wants to run Wayland. Why are you trying to start X?
>>>
>>> This machine is used only for rescue and I do not start an X session
>>> intentionally
>>> Starting in text mode and then startx was working fine in fc42.
>>> Has it been changed in fc43 or fc44 ?
>>
>> No more X support.
>> You can start gdm with "systemctl start gdm" which gets you a full session.
>> Or you can just run "gnome-shell".  I don't know how to get out of that
>> other than killing the gnome-shell process.
> 
> Oh, really? I use openbox, and I believe that it uses startx or xinit to get started.

I mean for Gnome as also mentioned in another reply.  Maybe KDE as well.

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