Bug 2405144

Summary:	GNOME login prompt does not appear on Pinebook Pro
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	GNOME SIG Unassigned <gnome-sig>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	43	CC:	adscvr, fmuellner, gnome-sig, jadahl, jan.public, mcatanza, otaylor, pbrobinson, robatino
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Description Adam Williamson 2025-10-20 17:29:28 UTC

This was reported by Peter Robinson in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402621 , but we asked him to split it out at least initially as we suspect the problem he's seeing may not be caused by the gnome-session crash reported in that bug.

I don't have details as I don't have the affected hardware, but AIUI from Peter, the experience is that he does not reach a login prompt (GDM) when booting on a Pinebook Pro. He's not sure exactly how the sequence went - whether g-i-s appeared, what happened after that.

We'll wait for him or someone else with a Pinebook who can reproduce to add more details and hopefully journal logs.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2025-10-20 17:29:36 UTC

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Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2025-10-20 17:30:38 UTC

Proposing as a Final blocker as a violation of "A system installed with a release-blocking desktop must boot to a log in screen where it is possible to log in to a working desktop using a user account created during installation or a 'first boot' utility" on the Pinebook Pro, pending further details and testing.

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2025-10-23 19:15:11 UTC

Discussed in the 2025-10-23 Fedora 43 go/no-go meeting, acting as a blocker review meeting: https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-10-23/f43-final-go-no-go-meeting.2025-10-23-17.01.html . We rejected this on the basis it's lacking sufficient information to determine what's going on, and we don't consider the Pinebook Pro to be a significant enough platform to hold the release while we wait for someone who has one to provide more useful information.