I installed Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-20230903.n.0.iso in qemu: nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 qemu-kvm -machine pc-q35-6.2 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 4G -smp 2 -drive file=./Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-20230903.n.0.iso.qcow2,index=0,media=disk,cache=unsafe -rtc base=localtime -serial file:/tmp/qemu-Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-20230903.n.0.iso.qcow2-output.log -name Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-20230903.n.0.iso.qcow2 -cdrom ./Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-20230903.n.0.iso -boot c -nic user,model=e1000,ipv4=on,ipv6=off,dnssearch=redhat.com,dns=10.38.5.26,hostname=Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-20230903.n.0.iso.qcow2,hostfwd=tcp::5558-:22 -spice port=6002,disable-ticketing=on,streaming-video=off -vga virtio -display vnc=:6 -monitor stdio -usb -device usb-mouse -device adlib -device sb16 -device ES1370 -device gus -device intel-hda -device hda-duplex -device cs4231a -device AC97 Then installed the XFCE desktop environment as well, then installed all updates sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - Log into Gnome - Log out of Gnome to go back to gdm - Select XFCE - Try to login Actual Results: Login fails, returns to gdm. Expected Results: Should log in to XFCE After rebooting the machine, login to XFCE works. This is reproducible, logging in to Gnome again makes it again impossible to switch to XFCE without a reboot of the machine.
Problem still exists unchanged on Fedora 41.
By the way, on current rawhide, gdm does not even offer any Xorg desktops to log in even if these desktops are installed. To be able to use XFCE or Gnome Xorg on rawhide, I used lightdm instead of gdm: sudo dnf install lightdm sudo systemctl disable gdm --now sudo systemctl enable lightdm --now And then I can choose between all installed desktops, even the Xorg based ones.
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