This concerns a Dell Precision 5690 laptop with Intel Core Ultra7 155H CPU and Mesa Intel Arc graphics. This laptop was bought in 2023 with Ubuntu installed (It actually is an "Ubuntu Certified" laptop) and has been happily running Fedora Workstation ever since until I switched from Fedora 41 Workstation to Fedora 41 KDE in November 2024 because I wanted to try the new Plasma and use the KDE app "Info Center" for some system info. F41 with KDE also worked without problems. However it is impossible to install Fedora 42 beta on this laptop! I tried F42 beta Workstation live, F42 KDE live and F42 XFCE live. For example F42 KDE gets no further than the KDE Splash Screen and then the screen goes black with only the cursor visible (which can move (the 'blue screen of death' also made an appearance in the beginning)). The same goes for F42 beta Workstation if you substitute the Workstation analogs to KDE appearance. With XFCE live at least the desktop appeared and was completely configurable but the install itself also failed: after clicking the 'install' icon it seemed a small outline of a window wanted to appear on the screen but aborted. I did succeed in installing F42 beta (Workstation and KDE) using F42 beta 'Everything' and using 'DNF system-upgrade'. But with both methods the laptop went dead as a dodo after entering password and booting. Same as with the live installs. As a check I installed F42 beta on a Dell Inspiron 16 5625 with AMD Ryzen 7 5825U and Radeon Graphics. Both Workstation live and KDE live installed flawlessly and worked perfectly. No problems. I won't try to squeeze further info out of the Dell Precision. I am getting to old for these kind of shenanigans. Been wrestling with mainframes and VAXes and wrestling with OS/2 and since 1995 RedHat Linux (floppy disks) and later Fedora on PCs and laptops (and the occasional tryout of other distros). Though I might try Ubuntu 25.04 beta when it appears (after all it is an 'UBuntu Certified' machine). If that is no go then I will reinstall F41. To reproduce get a comparable Dell Precision 5690. -- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
