GNOME Shell sometimes fails to start
In test 1683 the Shell failed to start.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/openqa-tests/-/jobs/3278661 which shows ISO sha256sum as 79e2b93f6cea7e8287fab82bf179e61e607ac908ff4e1abff3c67c230bba2d8f.
Retested and the issue is gone. https://openqa.gnome.org/tests/1867
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/openqa-tests/-/jobs/3278963 which shows ISO sha256sum as 16cdbc6f423f41e7b78c69dbb3c2f28919fc5adcd3799914b16d67dcbdc853fd.
Not sure if this was a specific issue or an intermittent problem.
In the failure case, the log shows this error from gnome-shell:
[ 64.286552] gnome-shell[824]: can't init metadata tree /run/gnome-initial-setup/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/root: open: Permission denied