2026-03-09 @ **16:00** UTC - Fedora 44 Blocker Review Meeting

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Hi folks! It’s time for a Fedora 44 blocker (and FE) review meeting! We have 5 proposed blockers and 1 proposed freeze exception for Final.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED MEETING TIME IN UTC! Clocks went forward in most of North America this weekend, so the meeting time is now 16:00 UTC. If your clocks went forward today, the meeting will be at the same time as usual local time. If you did not change your clocks, the meeting will be an hour earlier than before, local time.

Here is a handy link which should show you the meeting time in your local time.

The meeting will be on Matrix. Click the link above to join in a web client - you can authenticate with your FAS account - or use a dedicated client of your choosing.

If you have time today, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here.

Remember, you can also now vote on bugs outside of review meetings! If you look at the bug list in the blockerbugs app, you’ll see links labeled “Vote!” next to all proposed blockers and freeze exceptions. Those links take you to tickets where you can vote. Making sure you're not a bot! has instructions on how exactly you do it. We usually go through the tickets shortly before the meeting and apply any clear votes, so the meeting will just cover bugs where there wasn’t a clear outcome in the ticket voting yet. THIS MEANS IF YOU VOTE NOW, THE MEETING WILL BE SHORTER!

We’ll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they’re not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F44 can be found on the wiki.

For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process,
check out these links:

And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it’s supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki.

Have a good day and see you tomorrow!

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#blocker-review:fedoraproject.org: F44-blocker-review

Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 16:01:01 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:01:04)
    1. INFO: Our purpose in this meeting is to review proposed blocker and nice-to-have bugs and decide whether to accept them, and to monitor the progress of fixing existing accepted blocker and nice-to-have bugs. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    2. INFO: We'll be following the process outlined at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    4. INFO: The criteria for release blocking bugs can be found at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    5. LINK: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    6. INFO: The bugs up for review today are available at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    1. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Final_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    2. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Beta_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:31)
    4. INFO: for Final, we have: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:44)
    5. INFO: 7 Proposed Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:49)
    6. INFO: 3 Accepted Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:49)
    7. INFO: 1 Proposed Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:52)
    8. INFO: Kamil Páral will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:25)
  3. TOPIC:Proposed Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:55)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443774 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:05)
  4. TOPIC:(2443774) dnf cli segmentation faults during transaction when locale is set to C or POSIX (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:05)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+2,0,-1) (+nielsenb, +derekenz, -kparal) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:05)
    2. INFO: Proposed Blocker, dnf5, POST (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:05)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2064 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:08:05)
    4. AGREED: 2443774 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is potentially a blocker per various criteria related to package installation, but we agreed we can't think of or demonstrate any common or criteria-covered situation where the system locale is likely to be C or POSIX (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:17:37)
    5. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2071 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:17:52)
    6. INFO: Proposed Blocker, gnome-remote-desktop, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:17:52)
    7. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-1) (-nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:17:52)
  5. TOPIC:(2444824) GNOME Remote Desktop (RDP remote login) connects but shows a blank white screen and disconnects shortly afterwards (Fedora 44). (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:17:52)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444824 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:17:52)
    2. AGREED: 2444824 - punt (delay decision) - we decided to delay the decision on this for more manual investigation into the various facets (different clients, GNOME case vs. installer case, getting more logs about what's going on when there's a failure) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:35:33)
    3. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-1) (-nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:35:52)
    4. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442689 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:35:52)
  6. TOPIC:(2442689) [abrt] gnome-session: __syscall_cancel_arch(): gnome-session-service killed by SIGABRT (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:35:52)
    1. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2056 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:35:52)
    2. INFO: Proposed Blocker, gnome-session, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:35:52)
    3. AGREED: 2442689 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is a bit worrying, but for now it does not seem reproducible, openQA tests don't seem to be hitting it. We don't have any clear indication there's a regularly-encountered issue that breaks the first boot flow (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:51:50)
    4. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438442 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:33)
  7. TOPIC:(2438442) Graphics broken unless Panel Self Refresh is disabled (with i915.enable_psr=0) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:33)
    1. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:33)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2028 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:33)
    3. AGREED: 2438442 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ#What_about_hardware_and_local_configuration_dependent_issues? , because so far we still have no indication this affects more than a single laptop model, and blocking the release for a workaroundable issue on a single laptop model isn't really in line with past reality. Note "Bugs that affect only a single adapter or small group of closely-related adapters are almost never taken as blockers" in the FAQ. (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:05:28)
    4. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441941 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:05:42)
    5. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2047 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:05:42)
  8. TOPIC:(2441941) Graphics break when trying to type LUKS password (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:05:42)
    1. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:05:42)
    2. AGREED: - 2441941 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - similar to the previous bug, this is rejected per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ#What_about_hardware_and_local_configuration_dependent_issues? as we have no indication at this point that it affects more than a single laptop (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:17:03)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, kernel, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:17:11)
    4. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2072 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:17:11)
    5. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443049 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:17:11)
  9. TOPIC:(2443049) Kernel 6.19.3 is unbootable - IO_PAGE_FAULT (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:17:11)
    1. AGREED: 2443049 - punt (delay decision) - there's some uncertainty around just how many systems are affected by this. we'll delay the decision for a bit to see how feedback looks after the public Beta release, and maybe see if the fix lands in the kernel (making the decision irrelevant) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:29:03)
    2. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2074 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:29:17)
  10. TOPIC:(2359799) Inital-setup: VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST using nvidia hardware (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:29:17)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359799 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:29:17)
    2. INFO: Proposed Blocker, mesa, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:29:17)
    3. AGREED: 2359799 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - this is accepted as a violation of the various first boot and initial setup criteria (at Base and Final) when installing on systems with affected NVIDIA GPUs. we do note it was already broken in F42 and F43, which may cause us to consider waiving it if it proves difficult to fix in a realistic timeframe (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:19)
    4. INFO: that's all the proposed blockers, let's move on to: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:51)
  11. TOPIC:Proposed Final freeze exception (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:55)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2445393 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:59)
  12. TOPIC:(2445393) SSSD needs to add Plasma Login Manager to the PAM services whitelist for the AD provider (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:59)
    1. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+2,0,-0) (+derekenz, +nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:59)
    2. INFO: Proposed Freeze Exceptions, sssd, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:59)
    3. LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/2073 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:53:59)
    4. AGREED: 2445393 - AcceptedFreezeException (Final) - this is accepted as a significant improvement/fix for enterprise login on KDE that can't be fully achieved with a post-release update (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:57:34)
    5. INFO: that's all the proposals, let's very quickly do: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:57:46)
  13. TOPIC:Accepted Final blocker review (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:57:52)
    1. INFO: all the accepted blockers are 'image over size' issues, I have not looked into them yet (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:58:13)
  14. TOPIC:Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 18:01:59)


Meeting ended at 18:10:18 UTC

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