I'm guessing this is a known issue but using Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-40-20240217.n.0.iso to install an Xfce workstation as a VirtualBox VM resulted in an aborted installation. Error was:
=== The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error and the installation will be aborted.
An error occurred during the transaction: Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package dbus-common ===
Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20240216.n.0.iso from the previous day gives the same error.
As a sanity check I installed Fedora 39 from Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-1.5.iso and it worked.
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On 2/18/24 12:01, Ian Laurie wrote:
I'm guessing this is a known issue but using Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-40-20240217.n.0.iso to install an Xfce workstation as a VirtualBox VM resulted in an aborted installation. Error was:
=== The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error and the installation will be aborted.
An error occurred during the transaction: Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package dbus-common ===
Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20240216.n.0.iso from the previous day gives the same error.
As a sanity check I installed Fedora 39 from Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-39-1.5.iso and it worked.
Apparently I'm not the only one:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244744
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On 2/18/24 2:33 PM, Ian Laurie wrote:
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Apparently I'm not the only one:
I tried to install a Fedora 40 ISO in VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host and the exact same failure occurred.
I've updated the BZ but it is concerning the original reporter reported this blanket failure back in October 2023 and nothing has happened.
This will be a show stopper for anyone running Fedora in VirtualBox, which would be the most common platform for Windows users because they don't have the QEMU/KVM option.
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On 2/19/24 10:46 AM, Ian Laurie wrote:
On 2/18/24 2:33 PM, Ian Laurie wrote:
[snip]
Apparently I'm not the only one:
I tried to install a Fedora 40 ISO in VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host and the exact same failure occurred.
I've updated the BZ but it is concerning the original reporter reported this blanket failure back in October 2023 and nothing has happened.
This will be a show stopper for anyone running Fedora in VirtualBox, which would be the most common platform for Windows users because they don't have the QEMU/KVM option.
Adding to the mystery, the Xfce Live images will install. I booted and installed to HD the following images into a VirtualBox VM:
Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20240219.n.0.iso
This doesn't prove anything, but it makes this less likely to be a VirtualBox problem and more likely to be a compose issue with the "Everything" ISO images.
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On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 16:29 +1100, Ian Laurie wrote:
On 2/19/24 10:46 AM, Ian Laurie wrote:
On 2/18/24 2:33 PM, Ian Laurie wrote:
[snip]
Apparently I'm not the only one:
I tried to install a Fedora 40 ISO in VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host and the exact same failure occurred.
I've updated the BZ but it is concerning the original reporter reported this blanket failure back in October 2023 and nothing has happened.
This will be a show stopper for anyone running Fedora in VirtualBox, which would be the most common platform for Windows users because they don't have the QEMU/KVM option.
Adding to the mystery, the Xfce Live images will install. I booted and installed to HD the following images into a VirtualBox VM:
Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20240219.n.0.iso
This doesn't prove anything, but it makes this less likely to be a VirtualBox problem and more likely to be a compose issue with the "Everything" ISO images.
It doesn't really mean that. The difference is that live image installs perform no package transactions. They just, more or less, dump the live image onto the target disk.
An install from the network install images actually downloads RPMs and performs a package transaction, and it's during this that you're hitting the problem. It's natural the same would not happen on a live install.
On 2/21/24 3:28 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
It doesn't really mean that. The difference is that live image installs perform no package transactions. They just, more or less, dump the live image onto the target disk.
An install from the network install images actually downloads RPMs and performs a package transaction, and it's during this that you're hitting the problem. It's natural the same would not happen on a live install.
Thanks Adam, I've updated the BZ with the relevant logs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244744
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On 2/21/24 10:03, Ian Laurie wrote:
The two fixes for this appear to be frozen in bodhi despite it being a beta blocker bug.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-5d99498b67 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-682d6680ce
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On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 07:02 +1100, Ian Laurie wrote:
On 2/21/24 10:03, Ian Laurie wrote:
The two fixes for this appear to be frozen in bodhi despite it being a beta blocker bug.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-5d99498b67 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-682d6680ce
They aren't, Bodhi just shows that box on all updates for a frozen release. It's not smart enough to know if they're blocker or FE fixes.
On 2/29/24 12:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
They aren't, Bodhi just shows that box on all updates for a frozen release. It's not smart enough to know if they're blocker or FE fixes.
Understood. Unfortunately they are not packages I use so cannot test them to help them get through.
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This issue is fixed. By setting a specific installation source URL to point to the Fedora-40-20240302.n.0 compose I was able to install from the Everything Netinstall ISO image.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244744 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266335
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