Silverblue installation fails with a python error

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I’m trying to install Silverblue (Fedora-Silverblue-ostree-x86_64-44-1.7.iso) on a Dell Latitude 3590 (i7, 16gb). The latitude is configured to boot using EFI. It does have two internal ssds, but during the install, I select only the primary one, leaving the second one unchecked. A few minutes into the install, i get a fatal error about python3 and it stops. The test option on the boot menu doesn’t indicate any errors.

Regardless, thinking the iso was bad, I installed it into Boxes, and it worked fine, no errors. Of course Boxes installed directly from the ISO, not the usb stick. To create the bootable usb stick I used the Fedora USB Writer from flatpak. And when selecting the test option when booting from the usb, there weren’t any errors listed.

When installing, I’ve tried automatic, custom and blivet partitioning options and regardless, I get the python error when installing. The second ssd is my current home partition and is formatted as ext4. I’ve tried installations including it and not including it. (My thinking was that I could do the automatic partitioning of my main ssd and after installation, edit fstab to point to my second drive).

Anyway, not matter what I try (i even wiped the ssd with gparted), i can’t get past the python error.

Any help would be most appreciated!

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What is the python error about? What does it say?

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I don’t have it in front of me because I reinstalled workstation, but it was an unhandled exception error. It occurred early in the processes, at least by the progress bar.

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I went to reinstall Silverblue to get the exact error message and this time it worked. The only difference between this attempt and previous ones is that after the original attempts failed, I installed Fedora 44 Worstation and this successful install was on top of that.

To sum it up, when installing on top of debian, i could not install regardless of what I tried. But installing on top of Fedora 44, I didn’t get the error.

So I am marking this solved, even though I don’t understand how or why it now works.

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You likely hit https://forge.fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/tracker/issues/110.

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That’s what I was kind of thinking so I thought I’d try installing one more time, but this time on top of my workstation F44 install and it worked!