Bug 2412100

Summary:	gnome-initial-setup freezes at timezone step
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jiri Vavra <houbovo>
Component:	gnome-initial-setup	Assignee:	GNOME SIG Unassigned <gnome-sig>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	43	CC:	garton, gnome-sig, jkonecny, kalevlember, mkolman, rvykydal, tdawson, tiagomatos, v.podzimek+fedora
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OS:	Linux
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Description Jiri Vavra 2025-11-03 23:08:25 UTC

During initial setup of Fedora 43 workstation with gnome, after choosing my timezone via search bar I cannot continue with setuping my system. The app doesn't respond to next/previous buttons.

It seems various systems with NVIDIA graphics cards are affected.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 43 workstation with Gnome
2. Reboot to finish installation
3. After choosing time zone, initial setup become unresponsive
Actual Results:
Initial setup become unresponsive, unable to use my system.

Expected Results:
Finishing initial setup

Additional Information:
The freeze is only for the initial-setup utility, system is working, I can switch to another tty (with no user created though).

My system:
Lenovo ThinkPad P1 gen 2 with Intel i7-9850H with dedicated NVIDIA Quadro T1000

Possible workarounds:
1) (Tested by me) Disabling nvidia card in bios, finishing initial setup, enabling again.
2) Reboot to rescue system, restart root password, install nvidia drivers

More information:
Bug for Fedora 42 [1]
Fedora discussion [2]
Reddit discussion [3]


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369620
[2] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/solved-fedora-43-workstation-fresh-install-freezing-after-clicking-next-on-initial-setup-wizard-right-after-choosing-privacy-options/171583
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1olm15n/fedora_43_setup_freezescrashes_at_time_zone_select/

Comment 1 Martin Kolman 2025-11-06 09:33:36 UTC

Hi - thanks for the bug report!

Looking at the steps o reproduce the issue I think this is actually for the *other* Initial Setup - the GNOME Initial Setup maintained by the Workstation SIG, not the Anaconda based Initial Setup (without GNOME) maintained by me.

So reassigning. :)

Comment 2 Martin Garton 2025-11-18 17:12:23 UTC

I saw the same issue.  Eventually I managed to get in by frantically clicking next many times.   I decided to check dmesg and saw the following which I suspect is relevant:

[    3.011051] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    3.011052] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 931 at drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/gsp.c:773 r535_gsp_acpi_jt+0x12d/0x140 [nouveau]
[    3.011150] Modules linked in: nouveau(+) ucsi_acpi typec_ucsi typec mxm_wmi drm_gpuvm gpu_sched drm_ttm_helper ttm drm_exec i2c_algo_bit drm_display_helper igc polyval_clmulni cec ghash_clmulni_intel nvme_tcp nvme thunderbolt nvme_fabrics vmd intel_vsec video nvme_core wmi nvme_keyring pinctrl_alderlake nvme_auth sunrpc be2iscsi bnx2i cnic uio cxgb4i cxgb4 tls cxgb3i cxgb3 mdio libcxgbi libcxgb qla4xxx iscsi_boot_sysfs iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi i2c_dev fuse nfnetlink
[    3.011168] CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 931 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(lazy) 
[    3.011169] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO, BIOS 3001 04/25/2025
[    3.011170] RIP: 0010:r535_gsp_acpi_jt+0x12d/0x140 [nouveau]
[    3.011241] Code: 89 4e c7 c5 48 8b 7c 24 10 e8 7f 4e c7 c5 48 8b 44 24 38 65 48 2b 05 ba 2e d0 c8 75 15 48 8d 65 f0 5b 41 5c 5d c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b eb ce 0f 0b eb ca e8 b6 62 a9 c6 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90
[    3.011242] RSP: 0018:ffffcea9c1e5f480 EFLAGS: 00010293
[    3.011243] RAX: ffff8ddaae609c00 RBX: ffff8dda8393f990 RCX: 0000000000000010
[    3.011244] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff87793470 RDI: 00000000000001bf
[    3.011244] RBP: ffffcea9c1e5f4d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff86e153c7
[    3.011245] R10: ffff8ddaae4e3120 R11: fffffbe944b938c0 R12: ffff8ddab5e2013c
[    3.011245] R13: ffff8dda83ea6000 R14: 00000000b290f639 R15: 00000000b290f108
[    3.011246] FS:  00007ff167fccbc0(0000) GS:ffff8dea75dc7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    3.011247] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    3.011247] CR2: 00007ff167ea96c1 CR3: 00000001291cb002 CR4: 0000000000f70ef0
[    3.011248] PKRU: 55555554
[    3.011248] Call Trace:
[    3.011249]  <TASK>
[    3.011250]  r570_gsp_set_system_info+0x166/0x1f0 [nouveau]
[    3.011324]  r535_gsp_oneinit+0x28c/0x320 [nouveau]
[    3.011392]  tu102_gsp_oneinit+0x126/0x430 [nouveau]
[    3.011456]  nvkm_subdev_oneinit_+0x40/0x90 [nouveau]
[    3.011514]  nvkm_subdev_init_+0x31/0xa0 [nouveau]
[    3.011568]  ? nvkm_intr_rearm+0xc1/0x1c0 [nouveau]
[    3.011625]  nvkm_subdev_init+0x46/0x60 [nouveau]
[    3.011678]  nvkm_device_init+0x163/0x1e0 [nouveau]
[    3.011762]  nvkm_udevice_init+0x45/0x70 [nouveau]
[    3.011844]  nvkm_object_init+0x3f/0x120 [nouveau]
[    3.011901]  nvkm_ioctl_new+0x159/0x210 [nouveau]
[    3.011959]  ? __pfx_nvkm_client_child_new+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
[    3.012012]  ? __pfx_nvkm_udevice_new+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
[    3.012094]  nvkm_ioctl+0xcf/0x1e0 [nouveau]
[    3.012149]  nvif_object_ctor+0x111/0x190 [nouveau]
[    3.012200]  nvif_device_ctor+0x2e/0x70 [nouveau]
[    3.012250]  nouveau_drm_device_new+0x18c/0x370 [nouveau]
[    3.012328]  ? __pci_set_master+0x33/0xd0
[    3.012331]  nouveau_drm_probe+0xb9/0x210 [nouveau]
[    3.012404]  ? __pm_runtime_resume+0x5f/0x90
[    3.012406]  local_pci_probe+0x3f/0x90
[    3.012407]  pci_call_probe+0x5b/0x190
[    3.012408]  ? kernfs_create_link+0x61/0xb0
[    3.012411]  pci_device_probe+0x95/0x140
[    3.012412]  really_probe+0xdb/0x340
[    3.012413]  ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x55/0x90
[    3.012415]  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x140
[    3.012416]  driver_probe_device+0x1f/0xa0
[    3.012417]  ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10
[    3.012418]  __driver_attach+0xcb/0x1e0
[    3.012420]  bus_for_each_dev+0x82/0xd0
[    3.012421]  bus_add_driver+0x12f/0x210
[    3.012422]  ? __pfx_nouveau_drm_init+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
[    3.012474]  driver_register+0x75/0xe0
[    3.012474]  ? __pfx_nouveau_drm_init+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
[    3.012525]  nouveau_drm_init+0x8b/0xff0 [nouveau]
[    3.012574]  do_one_initcall+0x58/0x300
[    3.012577]  do_init_module+0x84/0x280
[    3.012579]  init_module_from_file+0x8a/0xe0
[    3.012581]  idempotent_init_module+0x114/0x310
[    3.012583]  __x64_sys_finit_module+0x6d/0xd0
[    3.012584]  ? syscall_trace_enter+0x8d/0x1d0
[    3.012586]  do_syscall_64+0x7e/0x250
[    3.012589]  ? vfs_read+0x165/0x390
[    3.012591]  ? vfs_read+0x165/0x390
[    3.012592]  ? __x64_sys_pread64+0x9c/0xd0
[    3.012593]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x250
[    3.012595]  ? __x64_sys_openat+0x61/0xa0
[    3.012596]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x250
[    3.012597]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x250
[    3.012598]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x250
[    3.012599]  ? complete+0x1c/0x80
[    3.012601]  ? idempotent_init_module+0x2cd/0x310
[    3.012603]  ? switch_fpu_return+0x4e/0xd0
[    3.012605]  ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.isra.0+0x6a/0x80
[    3.012607]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x250
[    3.012608]  ? __x64_sys_openat+0x61/0xa0
[    3.012609]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb6/0x250
[    3.012610]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x2c/0x1c0
[    3.012611]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[    3.012613] RIP: 0033:0x7ff16892334d
[    3.012618] Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 83 6a 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[    3.012618] RSP: 002b:00007fff01783178 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
[    3.012619] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055b347ad21e0 RCX: 00007ff16892334d
[    3.012620] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 00007ff167fc35e1 RDI: 00000000000000b4
[    3.012620] RBP: 00007fff01783210 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000055b347ad3120
[    3.012621] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ff167fc35e1
[    3.012621] R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 000055b347acfce0 R15: 0000000000000000
[    3.012622]  </TASK>
[    3.012622] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---