2026-09-28 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 45 Blocker Review Meeting

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Hi folks! It’s time for a Fedora 45 blocker (and FE) review meeting! We have 4 proposed blockers for Final.

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. This page 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 F45 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: F45-blocker-review

Meeting started by @adamwill:fedora.im at 16:00:33 UTC

Meeting summary

  1. TOPIC:Roll Call (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:00:38)
  2. TOPIC:Introduction (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    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, 16:04:37)
    2. INFO: We'll be following the process outlined at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    3. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    4. INFO: The bugs up for review today are available at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    5. LINK: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    6. INFO: The criteria for release blocking bugs can be found at: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    7. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    8. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Beta_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    9. LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Final_Release_Criteria (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:37)
    10. INFO: for Final, we have: (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:54)
    11. INFO: 5 Proposed Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:55)
    12. INFO: 2 Accepted Blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:55)
    13. INFO: 6 Accepted Freeze Exceptions (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:04:59)
    14. INFO: since lukas is off today, I will secretarialize (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:05:18)
  3. TOPIC:Proposed Final blockers (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:11)
  4. TOPIC:(2538553) Czech keyboard layouts are a weird pain: what should we do (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:20)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2538553 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:20)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2189 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:20)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, anaconda, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:20)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+5,0,-1) (+lruzicka, +geraldosimiao, +augenauf, +kparal, +derekenz, -adamwill) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:07:20)
    5. AGREED: 2538553 - RejectedBlocker (Final) - this is rejected as it's very specific to Czech, requires the user to set a custom config rather than just using the default, the behavior has not changed in 45 (except for consoles now using xkb config due to kmscon, but this should be an improvement), and it not being clear what the "correct" thing to do in this case is anyway and there's a high risk trying to fix it makes something worse / somebody unhappy (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:38)
  5. TOPIC:(2542374) Anaconda WebUI does not react to keyboard changes when GNOME Settings focus returns on a screen other than Localization (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:53)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542374 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:53)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2193 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:53)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, anaconda-webui, POST (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:53)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+1,0,-1) (+augenauf, -nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:53)
    5. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+1,0,-0) (+augenauf) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:22:53)
    6. AGREED: 2542374 - punt (delay decision) - we're not sure exactly what the reporter did here, and exactly what happened. we're punting to ask for more information and also to test some paths ourselves (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:50:52)
  6. TOPIC:(2536815) dnf command not available in kickstart, f45 netboot installer (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536815 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2185 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, lorax, POST (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: BetaBlocker (+0,0,-1) (-boniboyblue) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    5. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-3) (-boniboyblue, -nielsenb, -adamwill) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    6. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+1,0,-0) (+adamwill) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 16:53:11)
    7. AGREED: 2536815 - RejectedBlocker (Final) AcceptedFreezeException (Final) - we agreed this specific bug does not violate any release criteria, so it's rejected as a blocker. But it is convenient to have a package manager available in the environment and that can't be fixed post-release, so it's accepted as an FE. The "reinstall with encrypted /home" scenario should be treated separately and proposed as a blocker in itself if it's problematic (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:00:47)
  7. TOPIC:(2540692) Cannot authenticate to secure wifi during gnome-initial-setup (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:00:55)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2540692 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:00:55)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2191 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:00:55)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, oo7, NEW (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:00:55)
    4. AGREED: 2540692 - punt (delay decision) - this is certainly potentially a blocker if confirmed, but we want to have more folks test and confirm the problem and get more details (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:07:16)
  8. TOPIC:(2541402) systemd-imds-early-network.service fails at boot with AVC denials (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:52)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541402 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:52)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2192 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:52)
    3. INFO: Proposed Blocker, selinux-policy, ASSIGNED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:52)
    4. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalBlocker (+0,0,-1) (-nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:52)
    5. INFO: Ticket vote: FinalFreezeException (+1,0,-0) (+nielsenb) (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:08:52)
    6. AGREED: 2541402 - AcceptedBlocker (Final) - this is accepted as a violation of final criterion "All system services present after installation with one of the release-blocking package sets must start properly, unless they require hardware which is not present". We note that disabling the service by default would be an acceptable resolution (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:13:26)
    7. INFO: there are no proposed FEs (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:14:41)
  9. TOPIC:Accepted Final blocker review (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:14:50)
  10. TOPIC:(2535534) Multiple things don't work from GNOME quick settings menu (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:02)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2535534 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:02)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2183 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:02)
    3. INFO: Accepted Blocker, gnome-shell, VERIFIED (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:02)
    4. INFO: the fix for this is verified, we just need to karma the update and get it stable (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:20:10)
  11. TOPIC:(2537341) oo7-portal not installed by default after upgrading to f45 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:13)
    1. LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537341 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:13)
    2. LINK: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2186 (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:13)
    3. INFO: Accepted Blocker, oo7, ON_QA (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:13)
    4. INFO: we need to test and confirm that the fix for this worked (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:21:40)
  12. TOPIC:Open floor (@adamwill:fedora.im, 17:22:56)


Meeting ended at 17:28:31 UTC

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  2. @lruzicka:fedora.im (29)
  3. @goroboro:matrix.org (23)
  4. @nielsenb:fedora.im (22)
  5. @supakeen:fedora.im (15)
  6. @derekenz:fedora.im (12)
  7. @zodbot:fedora.im (8)
  8. @decathorpe:fedora.im (6)
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