Per @supakeen , the ARM minimal disk image is going to switch from using initial-setup to using systemd-firstboot , see https://github.com/osbuild/images/pull/1264 . We will need to update _console_wait_login for this, as it expects to handle initial-setup. I told him we may as well just land this in Rawhide and we'll fix it on the fly, it shouldn't be too much work and it's kinda easier than having to build a test image and schedule tests against it.