Re: F44 Final testing request: gnome-initial-setup hang on NVIDIA adapters

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:49 PM Adam Williamson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> We have a somewhat awkward proposed blocker for F44 Final:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359799
>
> The bug is that gnome-initial-setup can hang on the timezone setup
> screen. This seems to happen only on some NVIDIA hardware.
>
> There have been multiple reports of this on F42 and F43, but we have
> not yet seen a report on F44. We're not sure if it's magically fixed in
> F44, or just nobody with an affected system has tried it yet.
>
> None of us on the RH team seem to have affected hardware,
> unfortunately.
>
> It would be great if more folks with NVIDIA hardware can test this.
> Unfortunately, you can't test in a virtual machine, and you can't
> really test on a live boot - I suppose you could hack things up to run
> g-i-s directly in the live environment, but we're not absolutely sure
> that would reproduce the bug. You sort of have to do a real install to
> the hardware and boot to gnome-initial-setup to see the bug. So you
> have to be happy to reinstall your system now, or do a dual boot
> install, or have a test box with NVIDIA on it, or something. Please
> don't do this testing on your production system if you're not sure
> you're OK to install an F44 pre-release on it!
>
> It would be useful to hear from anyone with NVIDIA hardware who can
> just test an F44 RC1 Workstation install and see if they hit the bug,
> honestly. But the *most* useful thing would be if somebody can install
> F42 or F43 and confirm that they *do* see the bug, then try installing
> F44 and see whether they hit it or not on F44.
>
> Thanks a lot for any input anyone can provide!

I talked to Lyude Paul (CC'd to this email) last week about this and
she said her team intends to look at this next week (along with a few
other NVIDIA-related bugs). Hopefully this will help us make some
progress.




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