# Cannot login through Wayland GUI after update

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [June 25, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/cannot-login-through-wayland-gui-after-update/20627 "2026-06-25T14:03:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeteC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@PeteC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/PeteC)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/cannot-login-through-wayland-gui-after-update/20627/1 "2026-06-25T14:03:59Z")

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Today I triggered a few updates that were listed in Webmin (a remote management web-based console for those not familiar), but should have been the same if dnf update were issued. After that I cannot login to the GUI, which I could login to a few days ago. There was an update listed for wayland. All packages are now up to date.

I can login to a text login (Ctrl-Alt-F3) or a GUI remote session from a Windows PC (which uses XRDP).

On the PC itself, the GUI login appears, accepts a password but for any user does not allow a login (just goes back the initial screen where users login from). There are a couple of messages that have not appeared previously in journactl:

Server gdm-wayland-session[965679]: Gdm: gdm-wayland-session takes one argument (the session)

Server gdm[1803]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing

These may identify the fault or there may be some more diagonstics to do.

How can I resolve this?

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**Author:** ![PeteC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@PeteC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/PeteC)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 5:37am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/cannot-login-through-wayland-gui-after-update/20627/2 "2026-06-26T05:37:03Z")

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To reply to my own question… It works again this morning. Maybe it needed a reboot after the update as those errors are no longer present.

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**Author:** ![gerry666uk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@gerry666uk](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/gerry666uk)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/cannot-login-through-wayland-gui-after-update/20627/3 "2026-06-26T20:03:58Z")

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When I read the original post, it made me wonder if it had been rebooted, but it seemed too obvious, so I didn’t say anything.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/cannot-login-through-wayland-gui-after-update/20627/4 "2026-08-25T20:04:15Z")

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