Description of problem: There is a race condition, which sometimes make F44 Workstation Live boot into a "frozen" state. I saw it on both bare metal in a VM. Petr Sklenar confirmed this as well. In the frozen state, I see the GNOME desktop and the welcome dialog (run installer/not now). It's in "full desktop view", which is weird, because on a normal startup it's in "gnome overview" state (you can see the bottom dash, etc). In this state, mouse cursor can be moved, and gnome itself updates (e.g. an power adapter icon when un/plugging adapter, but no input is handled. Mouse button events do nothing, keyboard events do nothing. It's possible to switch to TTY3 using Ctrl+Alt+F3. But the login prompt never appears, just a blinking line. It's also possible to switch to TTY1 where GDM lives, and input works there. After returning to TTY2 where the live desktop is, it's still frozen, but less frozen. Regular keyboard events start working - I can navigate the welcome dialog and anaconda using keyboard only. But mouse buttons still don't work, and no gnome-shell actions work (no overview, etc) - even including keyboard! So no Win key, not Alt+Tab, etc. I tried adding systemd.debug_shell to kernel cmdline, so that I can gather logs in the frozen state, but unfortunately so far it always booted just fine with this extra argument. Currently I have a suspicion that either this is a gnome-shell/mutter problem, or that it is a systemd problem with some services hanging (or similar), because it's very suspicious that even login prompts in text TTYs don't show up... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-20260211.n.0.x86_64.iso gnome-shell-50~beta-3.fc44.x86_64 mutter-50~beta-1.fc44.x86_64 kernel-6.19.0-300.fc44.x86_64 systemd-259.1-1.fc44.x86_64 How reproducible: sometimes, a race Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot F44 Workstation Live (bare metal/VM) 2. see that no clicks/keyboard actions work
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I believe I just the same or a related issue when I finished gnome-initial-setup and it should've transitioned into the new user session. Instead it "froze" again with an empty desktop view, and no input was handled (this time not even Ctrl+Alt+F3).
Created attachment 2129095 [details] journal when gnome froze after initial setup Hopefully this will help to identify the issue. It's a journal from comment 2 (so might not be the same as comment 0 case). It's the freeze that happened after gnome-initial-setup. I turned off the machine using power button here: Feb 11 14:42:11 localhost-live systemd-logind[1010]: The system will power off now! That happened after seeing the system frozen for a short time. So the lines before it should be related to the hang. I'm not sure at which timestamp gnome-initial-setup finished and the hang started, thought.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2437673 ***