Can't login, gnome crashes and sends me back to the login screen
The problem is present on both 41.20250106.3 and 41.20250216.2. The last working version I am aware of is 41.20250101.
Full journalctl logs: https://pastebin.com/Lv62Jzxw
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Launchpad
Bug #2081728 “Startup crash (meta_seat_impl_run_input_task) with......
[ Impact ]
GNOME Shell Wayland sessions crash on startup if Mouse Keys (and other?) accessibility features are enabled. This seems to affect a large number of people:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/8a95f1902f49fc831d4bee942899ed1239896c64
[ Test Plan ]
1. Enable Mouse Keys: Settings > Accessibility > Pointing & Clicking > Mouse Keys = ON
2...
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I forgot to post a fastfetch, here
...okay, blank brand new user works, this means it's not an upstream issue and is instead my problem
I guess the first step is to disable all gnome extensions
assuming the gsettings command did its thing, it did not help
how the fuck do I choose x11 vs wayland login
the gear button is just gone
okay both broken and working users are on wayland so it's irrelevant
yeah I am out of ideas
it did not do its thing.
let's try this for real now
.......why can I no longer even get to a login screen
gdm fails before that
well this is when the "just reinstall it's clearly too broken to fix" adage would apply
except I still have a perfectly functioning image
so I am not entirely sure what is going wrong
maybe I should switch to a real distro...
how do you get that up if you can't log in? I had some issues with gnome extensions, but for me I could log in, but then not do ANYTHING other than move the mouse?
(I managed to fix my issues by holding shift down during boot to disable the extensions) then I turned the offending one off
old image works, new images don't
also at some point the problem somehow changed because I cannot even get to the login screen anymore
just shows a blinking cursor (getting into a tty still works in that state though)
well good luck to you, I've only been trying Bazzite on my desktop for a week, but (mostly) so far so good
Solution
Launchpad
Bug #2081728 “Startup crash (meta_seat_impl_run_input_task) with......
[ Impact ]
GNOME Shell Wayland sessions crash on startup if Mouse Keys (and other?) accessibility features are enabled. This seems to affect a large number of people:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/8a95f1902f49fc831d4bee942899ed1239896c64
[ Test Plan ]
1. Enable Mouse Keys: Settings > Accessibility > Pointing & Clicking > Mouse Keys = ON
2...
This looks similar
I'll test if disabling mouse keys works
disabling mouse keys on all users and on the login screen has fixed the issue 🥳
I have already reimplemented half of that feature's functionality with input remapper due to a separate bug, so I guess now I will just reimplement the other half
thank you so much for your help, how did you even find that bug report