Just to let you know, my problem was a slight different message: "Failed to start X Wayland: Wrong ownership for directory "/tmp/.X11-unix" And the "/tmp/.X11-unix" directory had the right permissions. Turns out the message is quite misleading in my case because the problem was actually in "/tmp" itself being owned by my user and not root. I think at least the message should be clearer.
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/7857) ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues #7857 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/7857 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069564 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in meta_wayland_compositor_new() from meta_context_start() from main() ["Failed to start X Wayland: Directory \"/tmp/.X11-unix\" is not writable"] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2069564/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
