Wayland Broke After Updates

[Ractrin]

After the latest round of updates that got pushed to my computer, Wayland has decided it doesn't want to properly function. I've lost 1/6th of my total screen space (that's 1/2 of one of my 3 monitors) to a broken element on the screen that persists through logouts and reboots. It even persists through trying to reinstall Wayland.

Trying to do any of the below results in a "Black screen of Death" where Wayland seems to just outright crash and "blinds" me:
Trying to drop to CLI
Letting Zorin turn my monitors off (going to sleep essentially)
Trying to record with OBS
Trying to do anything on a different monitor while playing a Steam game

I know everything is still working behind the darkness because when recording with OBS everything is fine. None of the issues are picked up by the recording and the recordings even function perfectly fine.

Can't switch to x11 to verify if its only Wayland because logging out mixes my monitors up and makes the "broken" one where the login screen is. This then makes the broken element cover the option to switch environments.

How I know this isn't hardware related:
GPU still records no problem.
Mouse is able to be properly rendered OVER the broken element
Broken element moved from my main monitor to my tertiary monitor
I can make the broken element go to any monitor by only having that monitor plugged in

I do not have timeshift installed so I'm not sure how else to revert. I think I could just uninstall Gnome and reinstall it, but with AI's help on that the element has persisted (It's AI, it prolly didn't tell me everything and in the right order.)

I'm fairly new to Desktop Linux. Been working with Linux servers for years, so not necessarily a noob, but def not really had to fight with GUIs before.

I just recently moved so I can't locate any of my USBs to try a live-boot version of Zorin to make sure it's just the local install that's broken. Also PXE boot is a nightmare in my environment right now so not able to try that route atm lol

[Nourpon]

Hello and welcome,
I think you have an AMD GPU, so take a look at this to resolve your problem,I gave a solution that I used for these GPU

Screen goes blank after few seconds

Hello and welcome, I had the same problem and it come from the linux-firmware update who get regression. I did this, so go in recovery and try to downgrade : sudo apt install linux-firmware=20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.26 then mark linux-firmware as hold sudo apt-mark hold linux-firmware apt-mark showhold #you should see linux-firmware in the list the regenerate initramfs with the good firmware : uname -r #your actual kernel should be the output sudo update-initramfs -u -k 'the result of…

[Ractrin]

I've already gone the route of reinstalling Zorin. After escaping Windows I still live with the idea I might have to reload the OS someday. However, the new install asked for updates and the broken element came back after updates again. Which is reassuring because that means it IS the updates lol

Ty for sharing that post though, because now I know what package to hold back. I was just looking into that. I've reinstalled again because: fresh-install-why-not. But this time I'll try updating with that package on hold.

Also apologies I meant to include my hardware information. I have a full AMD rig.

Proc: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
RAM: 64gb Corsair
GPU: Radeon 6950 XT

[Ractrin]

Marked that package as hold and ran updates, after reboot, no broken element. Seems there's likely a bug in that package's recent version that doesn't like AMD hardware. Guess I'll wait and see if they ever update it to version 30 as it seems 29 is the version with the issue.

Thanks again for the help.