Fedora 43 kde live does not install

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Hi everyone,

I’m having a problem installing “Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop” (ISO).

The live version starts correctly, but when I launch the installation, a white screen appears for a few seconds and then disappears, the installer just closes.

My hardware is:
Mainboard: GA-Z170M-D3H
GPU: Nvidia NVS 510
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K
SSD: Crucial
RAM 32 Gb
This is a bit embarrassing because I’m not getting any error messages.

I’ve tried using:
Fedora Media Writer
CD/DVD
and Ventoy
but the problem is always the same; identical.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

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What does “closes” mean? Does the system need a restart or can you use the Live Environment? If you are still in the Live Environment, use journalctl to look for the reason. If you are not familiar with journalctl, see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/viewing-logs/.

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There’s a potentially similar reported bug here, but no clear solution:

A couple of alternatives you could try:

  1. The “Everything” network-based installer. This uses a different GUI so likely won’t suffer from the same bug.

  2. The “respin” ISO, which includes package updates since the official Live ISO was released. No guarantee this will have a fix for your problem, though.

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Thank you, tonight I’ll try to check something with systemctl.

P.S.: Only the installer crashes; the live session keeps working correctly.

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Try installing with the Everything Netinstall .iso

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@pg-tips
@theprogram
Thanks … tonight I’ll try everythigns …
Stay tuned.

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If you have time, posting relevant error messages could help others. You should be able to reproduce the issue even after you have installed Fedora with a different installer. The Live environment is often useful for troubleshooting, so if the ventoy USB has space so you can avoid replacing the broken installer image with the updated or netinstall image you will still have known working Live USB. It would be worth trying the respin first in case that has already fixed your issue.

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I dont recomend using fedora kde its buggy and relativly less stable than its gnome counter part however, if you so desperatly need kde plasma just install fedora server or fedora gnome then install kde via dnf.

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Citation needed.

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