Initial Workstation installation crashes when requesting time zone

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I’m installing Fedora 42 Workstation on an older Dell XPS 8940 computer, in a dual boot mode with Windows 10. It had Win10 originally and I installed Fedora on a separate disk. Grub seems to allow me to boot either system, and Fedora comes up with a nice looking screen. It starts out asking a bunch of questions, ending with the timezone request. I select Detroit, Michigan and click on Next. At that point, it does a hard crash and freezes. All I can do is push the power button. If I boot Fedora again, it repeats the sequence and freezes at the same point.
Tim

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This comment in Bugzilla suggests that clicking on the map to choose the timezone (rather than searching for a city) is a workaround. Does that help in your case?

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That was exactly the problem. I wouldn’t have thought of clicking on a tiny world map, which I thought was just a fluff piece of artwork, when the search dropdown box failed to work. It was especially confusing when the search box displayed the proper time zone when I clicked on the closest city.

To have Workstation crash & burn on an initial, clean install (using just the default values) is quite unbelievable. I really, really hope that there are a lot of red faces at Fedora over this.

Thanks to everyone to worked this out.
Tim

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Hey there,
I have the same issue does anyone know how to fix this ?
Thank you

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As I understand it, you can avoid the bug by clicking on the map to choose the timezone, instead of searching for a city.

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Is this addressed by the installed dev team in any shape or form?

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Thank you for sharing this! I tried to install Fedora yesterday and after running into Grub issues that I finally found a workaround for today, I then ran into this same issue with the timezone on initial setup. Clicking the map did indeed solve the issue! (I am also dualbooting with Windows 11, and I have an NVIDIA graphics card. I’m not sure if either of those are related to this issue.)

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thank you I had literally the same experience as @kit-d and after just clicking the map everything worked fine!

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Clicking the map helped me get past that timezone crash (which, to echo @tjryan15, I sure hope there is a fix already good to go for the next version, because YIKES), but I also had the setup flow crash during the “enable third party repositories” section, with Gnome prompting to kill the process due to unresponsiveness.

I’m also on an NVIDIA card (4090), if any devs happen upon this thread.

Please, iron these out!