I just downloaded and installed 20.5.522 and the (i) button in the viewport works - using the same nvidia driver and a rtx 3090 card.
Are you on x11 or wayland ? See Houdini 20.5 crashes on Fedora 40 | Forums | SideFX
I have some more dependencies installed in my ansible setup (probably they are not used anymore) - but it’s worth a try:
dnf install libnsl tcsh