Question for GNOME3 users

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What about this (on a system with broken GNOME)?

Code:

$ for d in {/etc,/usr/share}/{dbus-1,polkit-1,pam.d}; do [ -d $d ] && sudo grep -ri '/dev[^i]\|dri[^v]\|gpu' $d; done

Here's the output I get from that. Nothing seems too telling, but I may also have no idea what I'm talking about (always a likely scenario.)

Code:

/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.gnome.Shell.PadOsd.xml:        @device_node: device node file, usually in /dev/input/...
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak.xml:                   Share the gpu access with the caller.
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.Device.xml:              <doc:term>6</doc:term><doc:definition>Nickel metal hydride</doc:definition>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.policy:    <description xml:lang="da">Ændring af den bærbares lysstyrke</description>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.policy:    <message xml:lang="da">Ændring af den bærbares lysstyrke kræver godkendelse</message>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.opensuse.cupspkhelper.mechanism.policy:    <description xml:lang="tr">Bir yazıcıyı etkinleştir/devre dışı bırak</description>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy:    <message xml:lang="sv">Systemets policy förhindrar ändring av personliga nätverksinställningar</message>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy:    <message xml:lang="sv">Systemets policy förhindrar ändring av nätverksinställningar för alla användare</message>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy:    <message xml:lang="da">Systempolitikken forhindrer ændring af det faste systemværtsnavn</message>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy:    <message xml:lang="sv">Systemets policy förhindrar ändring av bestående värdnamn för systemet</message>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy:    <message xml:lang="sv">Systemets policy förhindrar ändring av bestående global DNS-konfiguration</message>
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy:      <!-- NOTE: this is not a DoS because we are using /dev/loop-control -->
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.wacom.policy:    <message xml:lang="da">Ændring af den tændte LED på en Wacom-tegneplade kræver godkendelse</message>

BTW, thanks for your efforts in helping troubleshoot this!

EDIT: Just booted up one of my broken installs, and decided to try editing GDM's custom.conf to disable it using wayland, and the autologin I setup to put me into Budgie. Now I get some more telling output on boot: "failed to startload kernel module drm" That repeats with a similar error from logind, and cupsd, then stops.