Bug 1588409 - kickstart quit with "Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package dovecot"
Summary: kickstart quit with "Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package dovecot"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dovecot
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michal Hlavinka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-07 09:10 UTC by Frantisek Hanzlik
Modified: 2019-05-28 20:42 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 20:42:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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mentioned error is on line 3106 (439.32 KB, text/plain)
2018-06-07 09:10 UTC, Frantisek Hanzlik
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Description Frantisek Hanzlik 2018-06-07 09:10:29 UTC
Created attachment 1448652 [details]
mentioned error is on line 3106

Description of problem:
Kickstart F28/x86_64 system installation, where %packages section of kickstart file contain "dovecot", results in an error window being displayed with message as "ERR dnf.rpm: Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package dovecot"
with only "Quit" button within it (no other buttons as Ignore/Continue etc).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda 28.22.10-1.fc28
dovecot-1:2.2.35-2.fc28.x86_64


Expected results:
IMHO anaconda should ignore similar non-fatal error (maybe log them for later analysis) or should in its error window offer some Continue button.


Additional info:
Installation itself continues, as it's obvious from logs. I did not have the strong enough nerves to get it to the end.

Comment 1 Vendula Poncova 2018-06-07 09:40:04 UTC
All RPM errors are fatal (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1565123).

Reassigning to dovecot.

Comment 2 Frantisek Hanzlik 2018-06-20 09:06:05 UTC
Imho better should be prefer to have (in case of non-fatal error) installed system than abort installation:

- when these errors will be logged, is possible to report all problematic packages together (instead of discarding individual packages or entire package groups)

- There are too many packages and these are changed throughout the distribution life - thus such situations will occur quite often. This means a lot of lost time on the installers side - who use kickstart to make the installation reproducible, accurate and _fast_. This solution is contraproductive.

- perhaps I'm not one, which prefer to have installed Fedora system (no matter whether with or without one - two maybe badly (but in this cases is perhaps all OK) installed packages (which will be easy tested and repaired afterwards), than
aborted installation.


And, personally, I would like to see if the installation media (like Fedora-netinst-ARCH.iso) is updated over the life of the distribution, as anaconda bugs are continually fixed. I'm sure there are lot of test before new distro release, but in case high degree of complexity as installer has some bugs will always remain - and this could help to remove them more quickly.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:33:18 UTC
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 20:42:38 UTC
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