Stuck at audit after install (likely Nvidia related)

[jonathon]

@ahershko

gets stuck at an audit

Likely nothing to do with “audit” and much more likely due to an issue with the NVIDIA driver, e.g. not being installed correctly or using the wrong driver version or hitting the Intel ibt=off issue.

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