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 Desktop Packages, 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"] Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding gnome-shell. This problem was most recently seen with package version 46.0-0ubuntu5.1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/a7dbd55723a8ea326d1ccf32e31fe307151786c2 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2069564/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
